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Hypocrisy is no cheap vice nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.
Edmund Burke
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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
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Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.
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Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distinctive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection.
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
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Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.
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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.
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And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
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There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused.
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To innovate is not to reform.
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