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Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. - Edm

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. – Edmund Burke

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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. – Edmund Burke

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Wisdom
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Edmund Burke
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. – Edmund Burke

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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all. – G.C. Lichtenberg

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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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What a blessing it is to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Irons rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. – Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks, 1508

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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life. – A. N. Wilson

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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. – Henry Ward Beecher

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You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living. – Ken Burns

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The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness. – Paul Harris

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