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A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the

A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night. – Thomas Macaulay

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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. – Thomas Macaulay

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Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. – Thomas Macaulay

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