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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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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. – Edmund Burke

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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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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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[T]he cherub, alas, proved to be pasted on tough gingerbread which was too hard for many to bite into. – Vladimir Nabokov, The Gift, 1963, translated from Russian by Michael Scammell

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People are like holidays. Do others see you as Christmas, or more like Tax Day? – Terri Guillemets

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It is when we try to grapple with another mans intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun. – Joseph Conrad

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The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four. – C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life, 1955

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