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Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science a partnership in all art a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.

Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
Politician
Statesman
Writer
Dublin city
Every
Partnership
Contracts
Indeed
Perfection
Virtue
Society
Science
Art
Contract

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They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.
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When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of religion and Christian charity shoot me for a robber and a hypocrite, as in that case I shall certainly be.
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Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.
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Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.
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Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.
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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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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
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For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever
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An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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