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

Edmund Burke

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
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 essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
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
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
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
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning 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
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
EDMUND BURKE

Equality Man Right

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