Quote by Edmund Burke
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers f

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. – Edmund Burke

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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. – Edmund Burke

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There is a boundary to mens passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination. – Edmund Burke

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Pessimism never won any battle. – Dwight D Eisenhower

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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous. – Elias Canetti

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The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality. – Heywood Broun

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It is the growling man who lives a dogs life. – Coleman Cox

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Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. – Bertrand Russell

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