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People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backwa

People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors. – Edmund Burke

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Whenever our neighbors house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. – Edmund Burke

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Caution
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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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Shame
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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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In a certain sense all men are historians. – Thomas Carlyle, Essays: On History

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History

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: President Cant Swim. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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History

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. – Milton Friedman

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From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. – Emile Durkheim

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All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. – Thomas Fuller

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I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year. – Camille Claudel

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