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Edmund Burke Quotes
«It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| Keywords:
Advances, divinity, doctors, Doctor of Divinity, lucrative, The Doctors
«People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Posterity
| Keywords:
look backward, posterity
«I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others»
«Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
abandon, derived, distressed, emolument, intoxicate, intoxicated, intoxicates, intoxicating, in the midst, look to, one year, relief, willingly
«Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Power
| Keywords:
arbitrary, enmities, enmity