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Less Quotes by Edmund Burke
- Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there…
- Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or…
- Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment…
- Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal.
- Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more…
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