| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 6156 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay (18001859) |
| QUOTATION: | Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | History of England. Vol. i. Chap. i. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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