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Brief author info: Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) 1st Baron Macaulay of Rothley. English statesman, poet, historian, essayist, biographer.

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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 Babington Macaulay

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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

The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.

- Katharine Hepburn

Marriage Quote

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

- Marilyn Monroe

Motivational Quote

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

- Audrey Hepburn

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Before God we are all equally wise-equally foolish.

- Albert Einstein

Family Quote

You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.

- Judith Guest

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