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Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
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A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
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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? - Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Reform, that we may preserve. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
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He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
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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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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. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
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An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
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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. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
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We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
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A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
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I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
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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. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
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As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
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There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
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The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
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The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. - Thomas Babington 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 Babington Macaulay
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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? - Thomas Babington Macaulay
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