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There were times when it was quite chaotic. It was very busy with a lot of luggage around. Sometimes it was literally a fight to get a boarding pass.


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EDMUND BURKE Chapter of accidents.
EDMUND BURKE Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ab...
EDMUND BURKE I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and...
EDMUND BURKE The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ...
EDMUND BURKE It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
EDMUND BURKE Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity.
EDMUND BURKE A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.
EDMUND BURKE That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
EDMUND BURKE Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the pub...
EDMUND BURKE Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.
EDMUND BURKE No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
EDMUND BURKE We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
EDMUND BURKE Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laught...
EDMUND BURKE It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand...
EDMUND BURKE The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
EDMUND BURKE There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
EDMUND BURKE Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it...
EDMUND BURKE Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair
EDMUND BURKE Turn over a new leaf.
EDMUND BURKE Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart
EDMUND BURKE But the concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
EDMUND BURKE Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
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