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Quote by Edmund Burke
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritan

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. – Edmund Burke

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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. – Edmund Burke

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Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that were so fond of it. – George Eliot

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Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see? – English Proverb

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Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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Stubborness we deprecate,
Firmness we condone,
The former is our neighbors trait,
The latter is our own. – John Wooden

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