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"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."
"When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask."
"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."
"There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction."
"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
Explore more quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay
"Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world."
"I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies."
"The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators."
"Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action."
"People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws."
"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."
"Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind."
"The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state."
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