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

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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" An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. "

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" Nothing is so useless as a general maxim. "

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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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" He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. "

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

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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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