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Thomas Babington Macaulay, né le 25 octobre 1800 dans le Leicestershire et mort le 28 décembre 1859 à Londres, 1er baron Macaulay, est un poète, historien et homme politique britannique. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. octobre 1800 – 28. décembre 1859   •   Autres noms Thomas Babington Macaulay, Thomas Macaulay
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“We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation.”

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/macaulay/txt_commons_indiagovt_1833.html#13
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“The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.”

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The earliest quotations of this give it as anonymous or unknown author. https://books.google.com/books?id=hPIsAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA321&dq=%22what+he+would+do+if+he+knew+it+would+never+be+found+out%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAGoVChMIlvi0prz_xwIVTwaSCh0hVwX5#v=onepage&q=%22what%20he%20would%20do%20if%20he%20knew%20it%20would%20never%20be%20found%20out%22&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=i2MPAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA16-IA71&dq=%22what+he+would+do+if+he+knew+it+would+never+be+found+out%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAGoVChMIkMmp8rz_xwIV1BGSCh25lAO0#v=onepage&q=%22what%20he%20would%20do%20if%20he%20knew%20it%20would%20never%20be%20found%20out%22&f=false
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“These be the great Twin Brethren
To whom the Dorians pray.”

The Battle of Lake Regillus; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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