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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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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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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.
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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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The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
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Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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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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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
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Contempt is not a thing to be despised.
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Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.
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The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of limbs and features that strength and dignity of mind, and vigor and activity of body, which enables men to conceive and execute great actions.
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To innovate is not to reform.
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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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Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
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When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of religion and Christian charity shoot me for a robber and a hypocrite, as in that case I shall certainly be.
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True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.
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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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It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.
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