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Edmund Burke
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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Edmund Burke?
- → Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.
- → There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
- → Never take counsel of your fears.
- → Tenderness is the repose of Passion.
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Pick the quote attributed to Edmund Burke.
- → Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
- → Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
- → Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
- → Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.
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Select the quotation attributed to Edmund Burke.
- → You can never plan the future by the past.
- → When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
- → The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
- → Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
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One of these may be attributed to Edmund Burke. Which one?
- → A book is a mirror: if an ape peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
- → If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work.
- → The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
- → If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
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Which one of these belongs to Edmund Burke?
- → Much learning does not teach understanding.
- → I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
- → No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
- → One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Edmund Burke?
- → I owe all my success in life to always having been ready a quarter of an hour before the time appointed.
- → Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.
- → Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.
- → To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Edmund Burke.
- → Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
- → Books are ships which pass through the vast sea of time.
- → Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.
- → Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.
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