Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.Edmund Burke
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In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
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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 actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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Where mystery begins religion ends.
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