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“Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries and never pass a waking hour without a book before me.”

Expressing a lifelong passion for reading as the highest form of happiness · Letter to his sister, around 1832

About Thomas Babington Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macaulay

25 October 1800–28 December 1859

Thomas Babington Macaulay was born on 25 October 1800 at Rothley Temple in Leicestershire and died on 28 December 1859 at Kensington, London. He was at once a poet, essayist, parliamentarian, colonial administrator, historian, reviewer, and one of the most commanding prose stylists in nineteenth-century English. To…

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