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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Edmund Burke

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Foundation Religion Society Stability True
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success
Turn over a new leaf.
EDMUND BURKE

Let Go One Liner Start
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
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success

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