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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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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. – 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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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. – Edmund Burke

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But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget. – G. K. Chesterton

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Look, when that crowd gets to cheering, when we know theyre with us, when we know they like us, we play better. A hell of a lot better! – Bill Carlin

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A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man. – Arthur Miller

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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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