To take Macaulay out of literature and society and put him in the House of Commons, is like taking the chief physician out of London during a pestilence. (Sydney Smith)

To take Macaulay out of literature and society and put him in the House of Commons, is like taking the chief physician out of London during a pestilence.

Sydney Smith

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