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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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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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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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Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.
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It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency in general, that what is called taste by way of distinction consists and which is in reality no other than a more refined judgment.
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Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.
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The grand instructor, time.
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Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.
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It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
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Public calamity is a mighty leveller.
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No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.
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The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
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I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood from pieces which my present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible.
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The parties are the gamesters but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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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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A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent.
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