Illustrious predecessor.
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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.Edmund Burke
A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival
Edmund Burke
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
Edmund Burke
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Edmund Burke
In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.
Edmund Burke
Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.
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