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Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes: Only imagine a man acting for one single day on the supposition that all his neighbors believe all that they profess, and act up to all that they believe!
         

Only imagine a man acting for one single day on the supposition that all his neighbors believe all that they profess, and act up to all that they believe!


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To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.



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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.

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



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

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



The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.



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Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.



Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from 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.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from 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.



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Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.





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