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General 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…
- We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
- We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents
- Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.... If, like those of Rochefoucault, it be sparkling…
- What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!-To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a…
- Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
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