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" I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies. "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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" Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction. "

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" I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. "

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" There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits. "

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" Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve! "

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" We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. "

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" We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. "

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" Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world. "

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" None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. "

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" The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature. "

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" To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. "

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" The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. "

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" To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. "

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" The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. "

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" The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. "

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" As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. "

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" The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state. "

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" Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. "

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" There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom. "

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" A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot. "

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" Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. "

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" There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen. "

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" I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read. "

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" And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods? "

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" American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society. "

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" Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. "

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