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Quote by Edmund Burke
If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the Works o

If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the Works of our National Poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a mole-hill to a mountain. – Edmund Burke

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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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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. – Edmund Burke

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One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote–Alexander Pope. – Augustine Birrell

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The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them. – Gary Saul Morson, “Bakhtin, The Genres of Quotation, and The Aphoristic Consciou

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Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous. – Abdelkader

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Life itself is a quotation. – Jorge Luis Borges

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