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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Edmund Burke

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
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
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 great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
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
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

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