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• Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.
  -- Edmund Burke...
• You can never plan the future by the past. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, -- Letter to a Member of the National Assembly, Vol.
  iv, p. 55...
• Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire -- William Blake
• In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontent, Vol. i, p. 516...
• So what's the plan? We do...nothing. Yup. That's another world-beater.
  -- Edmund and Baldrick : Nob and Nobility...
• Oh come on Edmund, you _must_ be able to think of another best man.
  .. ...Well, I suppose I _could_ ask Percy...Percy? (excited) My lord?...
• edients, and by parts. -- Edmund Burke
• Society can only pursue its normal course by means of a certain progression of changes.
  -- John, Viscount Morley...
• The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797), in a letter to William Smith...