"The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave……" — Thomas B. Macaulay
"The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators."
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125 Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay
Thomas B. Macaulay has 125 quotes on this site.
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It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
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To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed…
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A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
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In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which…
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The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
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None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident…
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The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But…
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Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
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And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is…
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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a…
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There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect…
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[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.
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More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles,…
— Jonathan Rauch
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Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's…
— Philip Sidney
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Ronald Reagan was an anti-government, union-busting, race baiting, anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-intellectual, who cut rich people's taxes in half, had a…
— Bill Maher
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In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.
— Hector Hugh Munro
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Fascists are flourishing politically in France and Italy, and now comes the murder of Pim Fortuyn, a populist politician who…
— David Pryce-Jones
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The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or…
— Naomi Novik
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Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.
— Unknown Author
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Calling Michelle 'Obama Barack's baby mama?' Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren't the only targets. Fox's pattern…
— Nas
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Her lips tarried at mine. Baiting each other with the warmth of our breath, barely grazing, detouring, then connecting.
— Craig Thompson
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I felt like one who wants to trap and cage a little bird, and after years of waiting and luring…
— Elizabeth Wein
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It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse…
— Leland Ryken
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If this Nation really wants to create an effective border security policy, we need to have a debate that includes…
— Raul Grijalva
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