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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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Nothing is so useless as a general maxim. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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