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Which Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay
- The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
- The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for…
- The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its…
- Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
- I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young…
- There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
- That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.
- The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.
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