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Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.

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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
Politician
Statesman
Writer
Dublin city
Every
Kind
Satisfies
Quickly
Pleasure

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A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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That cardinal virtue, temperance.
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A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.
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Nothing is so rash as fear and the counsels of pusillanimity very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate, the evils from which they would fly.
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He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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A man is allowed sufficient freedom of thought, provided he knows how to choose his subject properly.... But the scene is changed as you come homeward, and atheism or treason may be the names given in Britain to what would be reason and truth if asserted in China.
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No men can act with effect who do not act in concert no men can act in concert who do not act with confidence no men can act with confidence who are not bound together with common opinions, common affections, and common interests.
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If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so,and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.
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I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in other countries and in this. But I do say that in all disputes between them and their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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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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The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.
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It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency in general, that what is called taste by way of distinction consists and which is in reality no other than a more refined judgment.
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Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.
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The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
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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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