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"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other." -
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Edmund Burke
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Top 5 quotes from Edmund Burke
"An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent."
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing."
"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."
"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."
Top 5 quotes from Experience
"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration."
"Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience."
"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around."
"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment."
"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."
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