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Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.
Edmund Burke
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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
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Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.
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Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.
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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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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America.
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To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.
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A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.
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Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.
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War is the matter which fills all history and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external of political society is in a hostile shape: and the only actions to which we have always seen, and still see, all of them intent, are such as tend to the destruction of one another.
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There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.
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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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