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Category: Macaulay

Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.

Then out spake brave Horatius The captain of the gate: “To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods?”

self, sacrifice

The object of oratory is not truth but persuasion.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

The temple of silence and reconciliation.

In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.