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None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Born: Oct 25, 1800
Died: Dec 28, 1859

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