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Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes

One of us two, Herminius, / Shall never more go home. / I will lay on for Tusculum, / And lay thou on for Rome! - Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Few of the many wise apothegms, which have been uttered from the time of the seven sages of Greece to that of poor Richard, have prevented a single foolish action. - Thomas Babington Macaulay

Then none was for a party; / Then all were for the state; / Then the great man helped the poor. / And the poor man loved the great. - Thomas Babington Macaulay

Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical. - Thomas Babington Macaulay

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