Thomas B. Macaulay

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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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. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. ↗

— 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. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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