John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
6160 Thomas Babington
| NUMBER: | 6160 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay (1800–1859) |
| QUOTATION: | An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | On Lord Bacon. |
| Note 1. See Tennyson: “Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.” [back] |