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Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.

Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
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Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal.
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As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasure and pain.
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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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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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