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" She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts. "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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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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" 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. "

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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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" 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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