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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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In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. – Edmund Burke

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. – Edmund Burke

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Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine. – Sigmund Freud

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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him. – Voltaire

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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die. – Edward Young

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Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a womans toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace. – Marianne Williamson

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Life is pharmaceutical from head to cuticle. – David McCord, Perambulator Poems, 1941

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Any idiot can face a crisis – its day to day living that wears you out. – Anton Chekhov

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