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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
Satisfies
Quickly
Pleasure
Every
Kind

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Nnothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled, before they can exert their virtues.
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Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.
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The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.
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Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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Hypocrisy is no cheap vice nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.
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Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.
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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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