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Quote by Edmund Burke
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make the

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them. – 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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Restraint
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Edmund Burke
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. – Edmund Burke

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Age
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You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire. – W. H. Auden

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Love :: Relationships

Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring, bulimic word. RELATIONSHIP. – Julie Burchill

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The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one. – Joan Baez

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We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven. – Lao Tzu

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Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and Ive fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse. – Mary Wesley

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Being famous hasnt changed my perception of myself – Ive just grown up. – Cat Deeley

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Their smiles and laughter are due to their habit of thinking pleasurably aloud about the pleasures of life. They have humanity rather than humour, and the real significance of the distinction is seldom understood. – Luigi Barzini

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