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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Edmund Burke

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
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
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
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
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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