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Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotations

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The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.
English author & politician
1800 - 1859
It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.

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