"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."
-Thomas B. Macaulay
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"The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion."
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"Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action."
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"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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"Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising."
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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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"I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry."
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"The poetry of the earth is never dead."
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"There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry."
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"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."
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