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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.

Edmund Burke

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
EDMUND BURKE

Grave Ourselves Treasure
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
EDMUND BURKE

Delusion Give Up Liberty People
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
EDMUND BURKE

Government Injustice Oppression
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Himself Mistake
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
EDMUND BURKE

Deep Goodness Tolerance
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
EDMUND BURKE

Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
EDMUND BURKE

Economics Economy Essential Expense True
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
EDMUND BURKE

Domination Greatness
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
EDMUND BURKE

Credit Invention Knife
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
EDMUND BURKE

Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
EDMUND BURKE

God Man Separate Unity

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