Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Edmund Burke
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  3. Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." (1794)]

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