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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.