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Quote by Edmund Burke
In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. – Edmund Burke

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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 hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery. – Edmund Burke

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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived. – Edmund Burke

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A minority group has “arrived” only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it. – Carl T. Rowan

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If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon. – George Aiken

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No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices. – Harry Bridges

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If you judge people you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa

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The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. – Adam Smith

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Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished. – Lord Chesterfield

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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre. – Warren Buffett

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How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of ones senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. – Norman Douglas

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