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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

Edmund Burke

A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
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
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
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.
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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
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
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
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
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
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
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True

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