All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
-- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
-- Reflections on the Revolution in France,
-- Letter i, On a Regicide Peace, Vol. v, p. 286
-- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
-- Reflections on the Revolution in France,
-- Letter i, On a Regicide Peace, Vol. v, p. 286
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Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution... - You can never plan the future by the past.
-- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
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Reflections on the Revolution in France, -- Letter... - The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
-- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
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Reflections on the Revolution in France, -- Preface... - Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.
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they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution... - Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs
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Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution...
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