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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Edmund Burke

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
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
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
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
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience

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