Quote#Hope
I hope our active Secretary will at last find out that dexterity with…
Quote byThomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne · 1693–1768
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Lord Hardwicke (6 October 1743), quoted in Philip C. Yorke, The Life and Correspondence of Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, Volume I (1913), p. 339.
English (original)
I hope our active Secretary will at last find out that dexterity with princes, to seem to promise all and intend nothing, will as little do as with private persons.
— Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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