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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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Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
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Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.
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The only training for the heroic is the mundane.
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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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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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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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It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
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The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.
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Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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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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Freedom without virtue is not freedom but license to pursue whatever passions prevail in the intemperate mind man's right to freedom being in exact proportion to his willingness to put chains upon his own appetites the less restraint from within, the more must be imposed from without.
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Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
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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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Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.
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