Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor… — Lord Melbourne Copy Share Image
“What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.” — Lord Melbourne Copy Share Image
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which… — Lord Melbourne Copy Share Image
Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though… — Lord Melbourne Copy Share Image
