[F]riends 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 allowing… — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Copy Share Image
Be not over solicitous about education. It may be able to do much, but it does not do as much as expected from it. It may mould and direct the character, but it rarely alters it. — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Copy Share Image
[F]riends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they… — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Copy Share Image
While I cannot be regarded as a pillar, I must be regarded as a buttress of the church, because I support it from outside. — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Copy Share Image
Be not over solicitous about education. It may be able to do much, but it does not do as much as expected from it.… — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what we say , so long as we all say the same thing. — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Copy Share Image
What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass. — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Copy Share Image
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better,… — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Copy Share Image
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards becoming either… — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Copy Share Image
What I like about the Order of the Garter is that there is no damned merit about it. — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Copy Share Image
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