Edmund Burke Quotes on Progress
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So far as it has gone, it probably is the most pure and defecated publick good which ever has been conferred on mankind.
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The march of the human mind is slow.
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By adverting to the dignity of this high calling our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire: and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.
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No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.