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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgiv

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. – Edmund Burke

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Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures. – Edmund Burke

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Curiosity
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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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Men
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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. – Oscar Wilde

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It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you. – Taylor Caldwell

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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. – Rainer Maria Rilke

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Come to West Virginia and well show you how to live… how to treat people. Were open for business. West Virginia is truly on the move. – Joe Manchin

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Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content. – Mason Cooley

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Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did. – Eartha Kitt

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Imagination