John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
6156 Thomas Babington
| NUMBER: | 6156 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay (1800–1859) |
| 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. |