Quote#Politics & Power
Bored to the utmost power of extinction
Quote byEdward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby · 1799–1869
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Last words to his son, who had asked him how he was feeling (15 October 1869), quoted in A Selection from the Diaries of Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby (1826–93) Between September 1869 and March 1878, ed. John Vincent (1994), p. 37.
English (original)
Bored to the utmost power of extinction.
— Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
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