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Quote by Edmund Burke
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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Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world. – Edmund Burke

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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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