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1. "Pour, varlet, pour the waterThe water steaming hot!A spoonful for each man of usAnother for the pot!" ~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
2. "What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!" ~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
3. "Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pass a waking hour without a book before me." ~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
4. "The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?" ~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
5. "To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked." ~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
6. "Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely." ~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
7. "None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours." ~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
8. "Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction." ~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
9. "And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?" ~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
10. "The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it." ~ Thomas Babington Macaulay

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