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He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.
Edmund Burke
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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
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The only training for the heroic is the mundane.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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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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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
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Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
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Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.
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The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by their common names. Massacre is sometimes called agitation, sometimes effervescence, sometimes excess sometimes too continued an exercise of revolutionary power.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.
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