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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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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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A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark. – Woody Allen

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It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;– it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others. – Jane Austen

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The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the way the other person smells — and he smelled real nice. – Sandra Bullock

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Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl. – Daisy Ashford

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