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" Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
England
Had
Nor
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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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Morality
Ridiculous
" Nothing is so useless as a general maxim. "
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Maxim
Nothing
Useless
" The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves? "
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Fall
People
Government
" The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. "
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Estate
Gallery
Realm
" I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read. "
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Desire
Without
Than
" She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts. "
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She
Understood
Church
" Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. "
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Wise
Wisdom
Single
" There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Evils
Newly
Freedom
" Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. "
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Sail
Your
Constitution
" We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. "
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Genius
Age
Wonderful
" The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state. "
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Honor
Always
Dislike
" As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. "
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Advances
Almost
Civilization
" And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best? "
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Best
Whose
Opinion
" 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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Democracy
Failure
Society
" 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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Knowledge
Great
May
" Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely. "
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Discuss
Settle
Question
" Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising. "
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Without
Advertising
Money
" 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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Something
Young
Satisfied
" The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Theory
Men
Logic
" The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature. "
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Mixture
Best
Portraits
" 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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May
Community
Rest
" To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Aim
God
Man
" 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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Charles
Gentlemen
Navy
" Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. "
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Mind
Enjoy
Person
" The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. "
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Boundless
Proof
Power
" 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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Because
Pleasure
Pain
" 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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Life
History
Picture
" Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve! "
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Voice
Events
Great
" 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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Security
Far
Birth
" An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. "
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Than
Utopia
Better