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The great difference between the real statesman and the pretender is, that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts on expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for immortality.
The great difference between the real statesman and the pretender is, that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts on expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for immortality.
Approximate author period: c. 1763 AD · early modern
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- Edmund Burke
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- Approximate author period: c. 1763 AD · early modern
author lifetime midpoint (1729–1797)
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 249 · printed citation: Burke · subject: Statesman
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