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Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them, like gold in the ore, that the mass derives its whole value: and the precious particles are generally combined with the baser in such a manner that the separation is a task of the utmost difficulty.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "History." Edinburgh Review, May 1828.

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The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "Hallam." Edinburgh Review, Sept. 1828.

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As civilisation advances, poetry almost necessarily declines... In proportion as men know more and think more, they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "Milton." Edinburgh Review, 1825.

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With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. No difference of political opinion can alienate Cicero. No heresy can excite the horror of Bossuet.

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "Lord Bacon." Edinburgh Review, July 1837.

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The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "Sir James Mackintosh." Edinburgh Review, July 1835.

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She thoroughly understands, what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.

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On the Catholic Church.

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "Von Ranke." Edinburgh Review, Oct. 1840.

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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.

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "John Dryden." Edinburgh Review, Jan. 1828.

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We have heard it said that five per cent is the natural interest of money.

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "Southey's Colloquies." Edinburgh Review, Jan. 1830.

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