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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. – Edmund Burke

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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. – 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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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle Way. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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