Quote by Edmund Burke
Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe. - Edmund Burke

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe. – Edmund Burke

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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations – wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. – Edmund Burke

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A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests. – Aristide Briand

Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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There are memories I choose not to live with, but we hang out at the same bar. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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