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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.

Edmund Burke

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
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.
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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
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
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
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
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Betrayal Himself Industry Opinion Representation Sacrifice Service
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
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.
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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
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
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People

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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