He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
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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two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.Thomas B. Macaulay
He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
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Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!
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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
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We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
Thomas B. Macaulay
There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
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