I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour.


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The sentinel on Whitehall gate looked forth into the night.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
He . . . felt towards those whom he had deserted that peculiar malignity which has, in all ages, bee...
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The Puritan hated bear-baiting not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to...
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The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.
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I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy libert...
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Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.
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None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or ...
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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents
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What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to li...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
Few of the many wise apothegms, which have been uttered from the time of the seven sages of Greece t...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
Charles V said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so val...
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More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at si...
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Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth read...
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Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.
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. . . A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
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Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exagg...
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We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
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A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbou...
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How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.
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The sweeter sound of woman's praise.
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Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most dem...
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Everybody's business is nobody's business.
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It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without ...
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And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And th...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his ...
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This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoun...
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In yon strait path a thousand May well be stopped by three
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The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.
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I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something that shall for a few days supersede the last fas...
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Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma, and who strangled Atahualpa.
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Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization
GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN
Boswell is the first of biographers
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And even the ranks of Tuscany / Could scarce forbear to cheer.
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Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons
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A single breaker may recede; but the tide is coming in
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Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth readin...
GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
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An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia
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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out...
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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people oug...
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The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suff...
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Then none was for a party;
Then all were for the state;
Then the great man helped the poor...
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Pour, varlet, pour the water
The water steaming hot!
A spoonful for each man of us
An...
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