| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 6161 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay (18001859) |
| QUOTATION: | I have not the Chancellors encyclopedic mind. He is indeed a kind of semi-Solomon. He half knows everything, from the cedar to the hyssop. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Letter to Macvey Napier, Dec. 17, 1830. |
| | Note 1. I wish I were as sure of anything as Macaulay is of everything. William Windham (17501810). [back] |
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