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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Edmund Burke
Time, Arrogance Of Youth, Age
Edmund Burke, Harvey C. Mansfield (1984). “Selected Letters of Edmund Burke”, p.107, University of Chicago Press

To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.

Edmund Burke
Past, Age, Complaining
'Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents' (1770) p. 4

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.

Edmund Burke
Age, Looks, Gone
Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of Edmund Burke”, p.149

Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age.

Edmund Burke
Book, Character, Age
Edmund Burke (1804). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.14

Instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree, and, to take more shame to ourselves, we cherish them because they are prejudices; and the longer they have lasted and the more generally they have prevailed, the more we cherish them. We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.

Edmund Burke
Men, Age, Casting

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