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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
Pleasure
Every
Kind
Satisfies
Quickly

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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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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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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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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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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Knowledge of those unalterable Relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other...To these we should conform in good Earnest and not think to force Nature, and the whole Order of her System, by a Compliance with our Pride, and Folly, to conform to our artificial Regulations.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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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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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever
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In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.
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