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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had nothing to talk about. She forgot the definition of "jazz" as well and came to think of it as every beautiful thing she had ever failed to appreciate: the taste of warm rain; the smell of a baby; the din of a swollen river, rushing past her tree and onward to infinity. ↗

— David Sedaris

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Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#forcing #giving #head #like #lip

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. ↗

— Carol Burnett

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There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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