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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Edmund Burke

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
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
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
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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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
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
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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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.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
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
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

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