Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.
Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pa… - Thomas B. Macaulay
Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pa…
- Thomas B. Macaulay
If anybody would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces, and gardens and fine dinners, and wine, and coaches, and beautiful clothes,… - Thomas B. Macaulay
If anybody would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces, and gardens and fine dinners, and wine, and coaches, and beautiful clothes,…
The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty. - Thomas B. Macaulay
The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.
Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn. - Thomas B. Macaulay
Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn.
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws. - Thomas B. Macaulay
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote desce… - Thomas B. Macaulay
People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote desce…
History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders o… - Thomas B. Macaulay
History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders o…
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read. - Thomas B. Macaulay
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning. - Thomas B. Macaulay
More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.
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