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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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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. – Edmund Burke

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Shame
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There is a boundary to mens passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination. – Edmund Burke

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Imagination
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. – Edmund Burke

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The torment of precautions often exceeds often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon ones self to destiny. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy. – E. M. Forster

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Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. – Lydia Maria Child

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Dont dance on a volcano. – Proverb

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning. – Thomas a Kempis

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In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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One must not make oneself cheap here – that is a cardinal point – or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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