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   Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations.  1989.
 
 
NUMBER:1416
AUTHOR:James Bryce (1838–1922)
QUOTATION:A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.
ATTRIBUTION:LORD BRYCE.—Owen Wister, Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship, p. 66 (1930).

  This remark was made during a conversation with Wister in London in 1921.
SUBJECTS:Politics
 
 
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