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Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.

Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
Politician
Statesman
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Dublin city
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The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
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I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.
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When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of religion and Christian charity shoot me for a robber and a hypocrite, as in that case I shall certainly be.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
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The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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