George Canning Quotes
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I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
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A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.
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Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.
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I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.
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In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So…
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Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your hat has got a hole…
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So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.
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Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.
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Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.
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But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!
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There is nothing I know of so sublime as a fact.
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If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform; When our perils are past shall our gratitude…
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Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U-…
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When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?
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Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.
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Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy…
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