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I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.

Thomas B. Macaulay
Succeed, Bears, Dignity
"History of England" by Thomas B. Macaulay, Vol. I, (Ch. 1), 1849-1861.
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.