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

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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" As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. "

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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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" A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in. "

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

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" The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. "

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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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" Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. "

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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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" Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be. "

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

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" Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely. "

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" Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising. "

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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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" To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable. "

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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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" That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy. "

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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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" Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. "

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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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" 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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