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Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.

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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
Politician
Statesman
Writer
Dublin city
Victuals
Cooks
Animal
Men

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The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.
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Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
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The individual is foolish the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.
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Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.
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The ocean is an object of no small terror.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny.
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The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
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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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Guilt was never a rational thing it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.
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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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