#ld

If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#ever #i #last #leave #me

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#building #classical #followed #growth #incapable

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#ever #lose #man #over #public

Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#could #i #keep #like #myself

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#down #fit #fool #free #freedom

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#cottage #desire #full #i #king

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#found #knew #man #measure #never

As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves. ↗

— Norman Macleod

#distinguish #feign #grab #hold #science

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#letters #man #men #temple #world

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#beauty #bible #book #else #english