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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. - Edm

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

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When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. – Edmund Burke

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good
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Edmund Burke
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. – Edmund Burke

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Liberty
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It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. – Edmund Burke

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Justice
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Far more seemly were it for thee to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money. – John Lyly

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Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind. – Charles Dudley Warner

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The literary man must needs be a thinking one, and every day he lives he becomes wiser—if wiser, then better—if better, then happier. – Charles Lanman, “Thoughts on Literature,” 1840

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No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic. – Ann Landers

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