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- Thomas B. Macaulay: American essayist and historian
- Rose Macaulay: English writer
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- George Macaulay Trevelyan: British historian and academic
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: One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.
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It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
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The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
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A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.
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A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.
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A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.
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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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And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
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As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
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At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
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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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Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
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Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.
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For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
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Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.
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Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.
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He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
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