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Famous Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes
“We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents”
“He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.”
“Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.”
Source: Machiavelli : the Founder of the Political
“A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.”
Source: Machiavelli : the Founder of the Political
“The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman.”
“The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.”
“In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.”
“Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.”