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He would nurse a beer through an evening of Irish revelry, affable and jovial, and carry his paralytically drunk companions home to bed without any disturbance to his life-long calm.


Edmund Morris

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EDMUND BURKE By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassin...
EDMUND MORGAN The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up a...
EDMUND BURKE But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resist...
EDMUND BURKE What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart.
EDMUND BURKE The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses...
EDMUND WALLER The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
EDMUND WALLER The balance of power.
EDMUND BURKE Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.
EDMUND BURKE You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the re...
EDMUND BURKE I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people.
EDMUND BURKE There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they c...
EDMUND BURKE The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purp...
EDMUND BURKE Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their c...
EDMUND PHELPS I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point...
EDMUND WHITE If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
EDMUND BURKE Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in a...
EDMUND BURKE Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting...
EDMUND MORRISON It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
EDMUND SPENSER Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercie ever hope to have?
EDMUND SPENSER Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.
EDMUND SPENSER It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.
EDMUND SPENSER Give time and permit a short delay, impetuosity ruins everything.
EDMUND SPENSER Anger manages everything badly.
EDMUND SPENSER There is no disputing about taste. [Lat., De gustibus non disputandum.]
EDMUND SPENSER Although the last, not least.
EDMUND SPENSER In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city withou...
EDMUND WHITE It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this gr...
EDMUND BURKE Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, un...
EDMUND BURKE Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that thes...
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