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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume

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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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together. – Edmund Burke

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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. – Edmund Burke

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When we look on the characters of man and woman, we cannot but perceive that neither is perfect by itself, but that each needs the other for its perfection…. Hence the one must be softened by tender emotions, and the other strengthened by firmness. – Frederick A. Rauch, Psychology; or, A View of the Human Soul: Including Anthropo

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People are who they are — give or take 15%. – Modern Family, “Fifteen Percent,” written by Steven Levitan, spoken by the chara

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A hundred men together are the hundredth part of a man. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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There are two types of people. Those we who come into a room and say, Well, here I am! and those who come in and say, Ah, there you are. – Frederick L. Collins

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