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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Edmund Burke

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
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
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
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
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social

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