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More from Thomas Babington Macaulay

  1. There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet …

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  2. We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

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  3. 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 …

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