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• Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, -- Letter i, On a Regicide Peace, Vol....
• It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versaille
  and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision....
• It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Prior's Life of Burke...
• A wise and salutary neglect. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol.
  ii, p. 117...
• Custom reconciles us to everything. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- On the Sublime and Beautiful, Sect.
  xviii, Vol. i, p. 231...
• Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontent, Vol. i, p. 531...
• The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol. ii, p. 108...
• The march of the human mind is slow. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol.
  ii, p. 149...
• edients, and by parts. -- Edmund Burke