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There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times.

Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
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Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of utterly disqualifying a man for the satisfactions and duties of life. Men must be taken as they are, and we neither make them or ourselves better by flying from or quarreling with them.
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Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.
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A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.
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They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.
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What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!
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Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.
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One source of the sublime is infinity.
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