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

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

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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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