His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.
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Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this the People will assuredly do the rest.Thomas Babington Macaulay
These be the great Twin Brethren To whom the Dorians pray.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
I have not the Chancellor's encyclopedic mind. He is indeed a kind of semi-Solomon. He half knows everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
It is the nature of man to overrate present evil and to underrate present good to long for what he has not, and to be dissatisfied with what he has.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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