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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.

Edmund Burke

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
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
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man

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