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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Edmund Burke

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
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
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
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
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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Domination Greatness
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake

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