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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

Edmund Burke

The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
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
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Evil Fate Goodness Man Politics Rule
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
EDMUND BURKE

Equality Man Right

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