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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. – Edmund Burke

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Change
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And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable. – Edmund Burke

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Welfare
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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds. – Sophocles

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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them. – Georg C. Lichtenberg

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When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different. – George Santayana

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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. – Victor Hugo

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I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mothers poor mental health. – Jean Piaget

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