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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:4412
AUTHOR:Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
QUOTATION:All government,—indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act,—is founded on compromise and barter.
ATTRIBUTION:Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. ii. p. 169.
 

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