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Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.

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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
Politician
Statesman
Writer
Dublin city
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Men
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.
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The wisdom of our ancestors.
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Nothing less will content me, than wholeAmerica.
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