Macaulay

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    Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!
    —Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)

    He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
    —Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)

    He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind. He must unlearn much of that knowledge which has perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title to superiority. His very talents will be a hindrance to him.
    —Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)