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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.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay
“I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read”
“Then out spake brave Horatius, / The Captain of the Gate: / `To every man upon this earth / Death cometh soon or late. / And how can man die better / Than facing fearful odds, / For the ashes of his fathers, / And the temples of his Gods?'”
Thomas Babington
“When some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St Paul's.”
“Thank you, madam, the agony is abated.”
“There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen: and the gentlemen were not seamen.”
“They [the Nabobs] raised the price of everything in their neighbourhood, from fresh eggs to rotten boroughs.”
“Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.”
“And lastly, let us provide in our Constitution for its revision at stated periods”
“By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors”
