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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

Edmund Burke

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
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
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
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
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
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
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
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
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue

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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