30 ordspråk av Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay
Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay
Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
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Thank you, madam, the agony is abated.
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The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.
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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
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The voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve
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Then out spake brave Horatius, / The Captain of the Gate: / `To every man upon this earth / Death cometh soon or late. / And how can man die better / Than facing fearful odds, / For the ashes of his fathers, / And the temples of his Gods?'
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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.
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They [the Nabobs] raised the price of everything in their neighbourhood, from fresh eggs to rotten boroughs.
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We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality
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We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents
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When some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St Paul's.
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Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!
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Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons
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