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Firsts Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay
- 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…
- The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets. Shakespeare is not…
- The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.
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