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

Thomas B. Macaulay · Poetry

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Thomas B. 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.

Government

Thomas B. Macaulay

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

Freedom

Thomas B. Macaulay

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

Money

Thomas B. Macaulay

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.

Loneliness