Quote by Edmund Burke
Whenever our neighbors house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for th

Whenever our neighbors house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. – Edmund Burke

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

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Society
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And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable. – Edmund Burke

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Welfare
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. – Edmund Burke

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If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will make it. – Proverb

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Dont dance on a volcano. – Proverb

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Caution

They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent. – Benjamin Franklin

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Always count the cost. – Proverb

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The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative. – Anthony Kiedis

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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self. – Muhammad Iqbal

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A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie. – Charles Edward Montague, Disenchantment

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Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad. – Dan Auerbach

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