British - Poet | October 25, 1800 - December 28, 1859
That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
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Reform, that we may preserve.
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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
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People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
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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 meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.
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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 ladies.
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I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.
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An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.
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A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.
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As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
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