"Charles V said that a man who knew……" — Thomas Babington Macaulay
"Charles V said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life."
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
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12 Quotes by Thomas Babington Macaulay
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He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
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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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To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct…
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American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most…
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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
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Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.
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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
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An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.
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'In a democracy,' said Mr Pinfold, with more weight than originality, 'Men do not seek authority so that they may…
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Boswell is the first of biographers
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The voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve
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