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She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.
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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 ladies.
Thomas B. Macaulay
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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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The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.
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I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
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Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.
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As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
Thomas B. Macaulay
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That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.
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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.
Thomas B. Macaulay
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There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
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The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.
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Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
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