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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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. – Edmund Burke

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Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world. – Edmund Burke

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

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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. – Winston Churchill

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No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Freaks are the much needed escape from the humdrum. They are poetry. – Albert Perry

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The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The worst men often give the best advice. – Francis Bacon

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You complain, Velox, that the epigrams which I write are long. You yourself write nothing; your attempts are shorter. – Marcus Valerius Martialis, translated from Latin

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