John Russell, 1st Earl Russell quotes
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“A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.”
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“If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.”
-- John Russell, 1st Earl RussellSource : Greenock, 19 September 1853.
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“It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.”
-- John Russell, 1st Earl RussellSource : Letter to T. Attwood, October 1831, after the rejection in the House of Lords of the Reform Bill (7 October 1831)
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“Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.”
-- John Russell, 1st Earl RussellSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 2-3, Address to the Electors of the City of London (April 6, 1859), 1922.
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“I cannot think of a greater blessing than to die in one's own bed, without warning or discomfort, on the last page of a new book that we most wanted to read.”
-- John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
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“Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.”
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“One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.”
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“A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.”
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“Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.”
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“He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.”
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