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Quote by Edmund Burke
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. - Edm

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. – Edmund Burke

Other quotes by Edmund Burke

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. – Edmund Burke

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Government
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Edmund Burke
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I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. – Edmund Burke

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Business
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Edmund Burke
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. – Edmund Burke

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Change
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Other Quotes from
Books
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. – Alan Bennett

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Books

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.” – Helen Exley

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Books

Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh. – Judah Ibn Tibbon

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Books

Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this. – Rose Macaulay

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Books

Random Quotes

But in seven weeks it was done, the frontiers decided.
A continent for better or worse divided.
The next day he sailed for England, where he quickly forgot
The case as a good lawyer must. Return he would not,
Afraid, as he told his Club, that he might get shot. – W. H. Auden

Category:
Borders

The hardest prisons to break out of are the ones we build ourselves. – Author unknown

Category:
Self

Ive been on a calendar, but Ive never been on time. – Marilyn Monroe

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Time

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. – John F. Kennedy

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Fear