"Read Cobbett—a much better writer than that charlatan Carlyle."
— William Cobbett

January 1, 1970

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Thomas Babington Macaulay, journal entry (30 September 1858), quoted in The Journals of Thomas Babington Macaulay, Volume 5: 1 January 1857–23 December 1859, ed. William Thomas (2008), p. 217