"Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim."

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'Machiavelli', The Edinburgh Review (March 1827), quoted in T. B. Macaulay, Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to The Edinburgh Review, Vol. I (1843), p. 103