I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
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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two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.Thomas B. Macaulay
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
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge, but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.
Thomas B. Macaulay
To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.
Thomas B. Macaulay
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
Thomas B. Macaulay
He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
Thomas B. Macaulay
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