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Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Thomas Babington Macaulay

Birthname

Birthday: October 25, 1800

Death: December 28, 1859

Manner of Death: Natural Causes

Nationality: Nigeria

Total quotes: 2

“What a blessing it is to love books as I love them, to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”

— Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Selected Letters Of Thomas Babington Macaulay

Tagged: Reading, Books, dead, Unreal

“To everyman 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 temptress of his gods?”

— Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Macaulay, Lays of Ancient Rome

Tagged: Life

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