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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.

Edmund Burke

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
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time
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
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Foundation Religion Society Stability True
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
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
EDMUND BURKE

Credit Invention Knife
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power

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