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«I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
| Keywords:
booked, books, book up, cottage, cottages, desire, full, In a, king, King He, like kings, make full, on the books, poor, rather, read, The King I, The King of Kings, would
«The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.»
«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»
«Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.»
«The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
| Keywords:
oratory, persuasion, persuasions, The Object of
«More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning»
«And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?»
«Charles V said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.»
«Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
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Action,
Foolishness,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
apothegm, Apothegms, prevented, uttered
«Few of the many wise apothegms, which have been uttered from the time of the seven sages of Greece to that of poor Richard, have prevented a single foolish action»
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