My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know.


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It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - cynical, but hopeful.
DAME ROSE MACAULAY
It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
DAME ROSE MACAULAY
At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
DAME ROSE MACAULAY
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure t...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James II) served his turn. It was his h...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a g...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the im...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a litt...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoner.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
She [the Roman Church] thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
The Romans were like brothers / In the brave days of old.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
Obadiah Bind - their - kings - in - chains - and -their - nobles - with - links - of - iron.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
The sentinel on Whitehall gate looked forth into the night.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
He . . . felt towards those whom he had deserted that peculiar malignity which has, in all ages, bee...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
The Puritan hated bear-baiting not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy libert...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to li...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
Few of the many wise apothegms, which have been uttered from the time of the seven sages of Greece t...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
Charles V said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so val...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at si...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth read...
GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN
Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
. . . A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exagg...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbou...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
The sweeter sound of woman's praise.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most dem...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
Everybody's business is nobody's business.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And th...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his ...
THOMAS B. MACAULAY
This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoun...
THOMAS B. MACAULAY
In yon strait path a thousand May well be stopped by three
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something that shall for a few days supersede the last fas...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma, and who strangled Atahualpa.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization
GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN
Boswell is the first of biographers
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
And even the ranks of Tuscany / Could scarce forbear to cheer.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
A single breaker may recede; but the tide is coming in
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth readin...
GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people oug...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suff...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
Then none was for a party;
Then all were for the state;
Then the great man helped the poor...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
Pour, varlet, pour the water
The water steaming hot!
A spoonful for each man of us
An...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY