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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

Edmund Burke

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Assumption Country Himself Man
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
EDMUND BURKE

Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
EDMUND BURKE

Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
EDMUND BURKE

Exact Greatness Nature

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