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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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You can't get too much winter in the winter. ↗

— Robert Frost

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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work. ↗

— James Lee Burke

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