Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
EDMUND BURKEYour representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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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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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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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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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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