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• The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
  -- Thomas Babington Macaulay...
• His imagination resembles the wings of an ostrich. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
• Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry without a certain unsoundness of mind.
  -- Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)...
• Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising. Thomas Babington 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 who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim....
• The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
  -- Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859), "History of England...
• The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is profoundly ignorant.
  -- Shaftesbury...
• If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing
  and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination....
• If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing
  and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination....