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Edmund Burke

"But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever."

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"But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever."

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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

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"The golden age is before us, not behind us."

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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."

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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

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"I am older than your age and younger than your body."

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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

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"Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders."

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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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"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."
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"I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people."
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"In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature."
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"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint."
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"All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice."
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