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“Washing your car and polishing it all up is a never failing sign of rain.”

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Cartoonist Kin Hubbard, born on September 1, 1868, and died on December 26, 1930. Hubbard was renowned for his humorous illustrations and satirical cartoons, which held a significant place in American culture during the early 20th century. more

“The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.”

“Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.”

Thinking Knows Men Looks Individual Imagination Class Creation Theory Proportion Indispensable Advancement Generalization

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.”

Men May Age Past Imagination Views History Golden Compare Fallen Decay Golden Age Morose

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.”

Men May Reason Age Strong Nations Principles Atheism Mass Positive Atheism Tendencies Multitudes Abstraction Idolatry

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.”

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Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

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