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As the French say, there are three sexes,—men, women, and clergymen.[461:1]

Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 262.

To take Macaulay out of literature and society and put him in the House of Commons, is like taking the chief physician out of London during a pestilence.

Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 265.

Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam-engine in trousers.

Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 267.

"Heat, ma'am!" I said; "it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones."

Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 267.

Macaulay is like a book in breeches. . . . He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.