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Thomas Babington Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macaulay föddes den 25 oktober 1800 och dog den 28 december 1859
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A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.

A propensity which, for want of a better name, we will venture to christen Boswellism.

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is coming in

A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.

And even the ranks of Tuscany / Could scarce forbear to cheer.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

As civilisation advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

Attend, all ye who list to hear our noble England's praise; / I tell of the thrice-noble deeds she wrought in ancient days.

Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma, and who strangled Atahualpa.

From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness, in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbor, and to love your neighbor's wife

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He . . . felt towards those whom he had deserted that peculiar malignity which has, in all ages, been characteristic of apostates.

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child

History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people; and nine tenths of the calamities that have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires.

I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something that shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.

In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.

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