Quote by Edmund Burke
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. – Edmund Burke

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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. – 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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Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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My father always used to say that when you die, if youve got five real friends, then youve had a great life. – Lee Iacocca

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Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. – Ambrose Bierce

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Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded. – Charlie Chaplin

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