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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

Edmund Burke

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Command Freedom Poor Rich Wealth
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
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
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular
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
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
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 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
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing

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