Quotes by Thomas B Macaulay

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

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People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies,...

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Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

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Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that...

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I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days...

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I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if...

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

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

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As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

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And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his...

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

#Thomas B Macaulay