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Love Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay
- A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
- With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change.
- The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.
- A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
- Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.
- The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
- I wish I was as sure of anything as he is of everything.
- Reform, that we may preserve.
- Everybody's business is nobody's business.
- Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.
- The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.
- That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.
- From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two great commandments were…
- He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.
- The business of everybody is the business of nobody.
- The sweeter sound of woman's praise.
- Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
- A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.
- He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
- What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the…
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