Quote by Edmund Burke
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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When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. – Edmund Burke

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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. – Edmund Burke

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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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This is Scott Fitzgerald: very romantic writer—big with English majors, college girls, nymphomaniacs… – Woody Allen, Sleeper, 1973

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Groups of people are like a massive Rock, Paper, Scissors war. – Daniel, @blindedpoet

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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets. – Dorothy Parker

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