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There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself the other appreciates what others can understand the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent the second good and the third kind useless.
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.
Quotes By Thomas B. Macaulay
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Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a...
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As civilization advances poetry almost necessarily declines.
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Perhaps no person can be a poet or even enjoy poetry without a certain...
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To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the...
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The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men...
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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal...
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There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces...
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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident...
Quotes About Loneliness
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But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave...
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I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And...
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I have two ideas for novels at the moment neither of them all that...
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Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people...
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have...
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I can support going in after Saddam Hussein but I want to make sure I don't...
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I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday let alone 10 years ago.