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I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.


Edmund Wilson

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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...
EDMUND BURKE And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the h...
EDMUND BURKE All government--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act--is f...
EDMUND BURKE You have the God-given right to kick the government around--don't hesitate to do so.
EDMUND MUSKE Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
EDMUND SPENSER Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices, Each note of which calls like a little sister, Those...
EDMUND ROSTAND Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
EDMUND BURKE