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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Edmund Burke

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
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
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular
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
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
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
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking

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