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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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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. – Edmund Burke

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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. – Edmund Burke

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Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is. – Thomas Carlyle

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In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. – Angela Carter

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My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close of such liaisons. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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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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