More from Thomas Babington Macaulay

  1. I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.
  2. He [Richard Steele] was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
  3. We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigi…
  4. A man who has never looked on Niagra has but a faint idea of a cataract; and he who has not read Barere's Memoirs may be said not to know w…
  5. In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each…
  6. There you [Sir Robert Peel] sit, doing penance for the disingenuousness of years.
  7. I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young …
  8. Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.

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