When the public is sullen, hard to please, dissatisfied with itself
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"The most just and salutary revolution must produce much suffering. The
most just and salutary revolution cannot produce all the good that had
been expected from it by men of uninstructed minds and sanguine
tempers.
Even the wisest cannot, while it is still recent, weigh quite
fairly the evils which it has caused against the evils which it has
removed. For the evils which it has caused are felt; and the evils
which it has removed are felt no longer."
(From The History of England, by Thomas Babington Macaulay, ch. 11)
Btw, Macaulay is pronounced 'Макóлі'.
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Authors: ag