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To Tax And To Please, No More Than To Love And To Be Wise, Is Not Given To Men.
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to
men. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
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Our patience will achieve more than our force. -- Edmund Burke
There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manne
yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world....
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise. CATO
A wise and salutary neglect. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol.
ii, p. 117...
edients, and by parts. -- Edmund Burke
Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise me
for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men....
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 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...
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)...