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We have the longest commute in Europe. Even if our commuting time doubled, most of us would rather sit in their cars twice as long rather than change jobs, move house or change their work base.


Edmund King

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EDMUND SPENSER Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercie ever hope to have?
EDMUND SPENSER Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.
EDMUND SPENSER It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.
EDMUND SPENSER Give time and permit a short delay, impetuosity ruins everything.
EDMUND SPENSER Anger manages everything badly.
EDMUND SPENSER There is no disputing about taste. [Lat., De gustibus non disputandum.]
EDMUND SPENSER Although the last, not least.
EDMUND SPENSER In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city withou...
EDMUND WHITE It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this gr...
EDMUND BURKE Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, un...
EDMUND BURKE Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that thes...
EDMUND BURKE And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the h...
EDMUND BURKE All government--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act--is f...
EDMUND BURKE You have the God-given right to kick the government around--don't hesitate to do so.
EDMUND MUSKE Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
EDMUND SPENSER Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices, Each note of which calls like a little sister, Those...
EDMUND ROSTAND Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
EDMUND BURKE No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
EDMUND BURKE We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
EDMUND BURKE Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
EDMUND BURKE The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the nece...
EDMUND BURKE I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
EDMUND BURKE