"But Coraggio – and think of A.D. 2850. Where will your Carlyles and Emersons be then? But Herodotus will still be read with delight. We must do our best to be read too."

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Journal entry (12 January 1850), quoted in The Journals of Thomas Babington Macaulay: 18 November 1848–27 July 1850, ed. William Thomas (2008), p. 198