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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 first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.
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England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.
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Nothing is so rash as fear and the counsels of pusillanimity very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate, the evils from which they would fly.
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He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.
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Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America.
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Public calamity is a mighty leveller.
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Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.
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For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.
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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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To innovate is not to reform.
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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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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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He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.
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What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!
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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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All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.
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