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Which Quotes by Edmund Burke
- The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
- Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
- There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity…
- The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of…
- He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which…
- I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the…
- Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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