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Thomas Babington Macaulay

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The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the journalist's air of being a specialist in everything, of taking in all points of view and being always on the side of the angels: he merely annoys a reader who has the least experience of knowing things, of what knowing is like. There is not two pence worth of real thought or real nobility in him. But he isn't dull…
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C. S. Lewis, in a diary entry regarding Macaulay (July 1924), published in Letters (1966), p. 97

 
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