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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.

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
Equity
Dynamic
Debt
Money
Static

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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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Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.
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We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.
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A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Continue to instruct the world and - whilst we carry on a poor unequal conflict with the passions and prejudices of our day, perhaps with no better weapons than other passions and prejudices of our own - convey wisdom to future generations.
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It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient in strength.
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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition, to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Everything else is vulgar in the conception, perilous in the execution.
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Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.
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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.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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The only training for the heroic is the mundane.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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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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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.
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The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgements-success.
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