“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

Vol. I, p. 265
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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