“Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.”
Thomas B. Macaulay
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“Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.”
Thomas B. Macaulay
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“A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.”
Thomas B. Macaulay
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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.”
Thomas B. Macaulay
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“She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.”
Thomas B. Macaulay
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“He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.”
Thomas B. Macaulay
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“Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.”
Thomas B. Macaulay
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“In Plato’s opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon’s opinion, philosophy was made for man.”
Thomas B. Macaulay
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“The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.”
Thomas B. Macaulay
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“The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.”
Thomas B. Macaulay
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“We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.”
Thomas B. Macaulay
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“He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.”
Thomas B. Macaulay
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“We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.”
Thomas B. Macaulay
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