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Best Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay
- The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
- 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…
- Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They…
- A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
- The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories are…
- Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its…
- That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.
- The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.
- This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.
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