Thomas Babington Macaulay Quote

Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.


Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (ed. 1843)


Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both...

Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both...

Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both...

Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both...