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The great and recurrent question about abroad is, is it worth getting there?


Rose Macaulay

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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 Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
To every man upon this earth
...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
A...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to ...
GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN No parent/home/child/teacher/school has an all-round 100 percent wholeness. We all have limitations ...
SUSAN SCHAEFFER MACAULAY From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuous...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and t...
IRWIN ROSE I went to regular schools and I was home schooled a lot but I don't have any history in schools....
ROSE MCGOWAN The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the...
ROSE SCHNEIDERMAN We moved from the East coast to the town of Spokane, Washington, when I was about 13 years old, and ...
IRWIN ROSE Enzymologists usually study the initial rates of reactions measuring product formation as a function...
IRWIN ROSE Looking back on my 50-year eclectic journey in research, I am grateful that it has gone as well as i...
IRWIN ROSE