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Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The ambassador [of Russia] and the grandees who accompanied him were so gorgeous that all London crowded to stare at them, and so filthy that nobody dared to touch them. They came to the court balls dropping pearls and vermin.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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 read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Thomas Babington Macaulay