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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Edmund Burke

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
EDMUND BURKE

Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
EDMUND BURKE

Kind Learning Man
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
EDMUND BURKE

Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
EDMUND BURKE

Money Statistics
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
EDMUND BURKE

Delusion Give Up Liberty People
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
EDMUND BURKE

Mindset Religion Superstition
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
EDMUND BURKE

Caution Wisdom
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
EDMUND BURKE

Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE

Destiny History Repeat
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
EDMUND BURKE

Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
EDMUND BURKE

Hate Love Vice
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
EDMUND BURKE

End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

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