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

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

Thomas B. Macaulay
Age, Human Nature, Found

It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.

Thomas B. Macaulay
Greatness, Men, Age

Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.

Thomas B. Macaulay
Future, Age, Acquisition

Every age and every nation has certain characteristic vices, which prevail almost universally, which scarcely any person scruples to avow, and which even rigid moralists but faintly censure. Succeeding generations change the fashion of their morals with the fashion of their hats and their coaches; take some other kind of wickedness under their patronage, and wonder at the depravity of their ancestors.

Thomas B. Macaulay
Fashion, Age, Generations

What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!-To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion! To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity; to be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries!

Thomas B. Macaulay
Destiny, Men, Age
"On Boswell's Life of Johnson" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1831.

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

Thomas B. Macaulay
Poetry, Age, Genius
"On Milton" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1825.