Thomas B. Macaulay
Thomas B. Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PCwas a British historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer; his books on British history have been hailed as literary masterpieces. He was a member of the Babington family by virtue of his aunt's marriage to Thomas Babington...
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The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.
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He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
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A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.
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We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
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We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other.
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I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.
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The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.
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It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.
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Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.
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We have heard it said that five per cent is the natural interest of money.
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An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia