It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.
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Cunning is the natural and universal defense of the weak Against the violence of the strong.Thomas Babington Macaulay
We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
We see no reason for thinking that the opinions of the magistrate on speculative questions are more likely to be right than those of any other man. None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbors. The chance of his being wiser than all his neighbors together is still smaller.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
These be the great Twin Brethren To whom the Dorians pray.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Lars Porsena of Clusium By the nine gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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