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“The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.”

Thomas B. Macaulay · Loneliness

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Thomas B. Macaulay

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The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

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Thomas B. Macaulay

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

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