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Misattributed quotes — Edmund Burke

1729–1797 Ireland

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8 quotes

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Misattributed Not Burke but Oliver Wendell Holmes in The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858)

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling — it never forgives the preaching of a new gospel.

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If it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.

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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edmund Burke (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.