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It is fourteen years ago since yourself, then the leader of the…
Quote byBenjamin Disraeli · 1804–1881
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Sir William Miles (11 June 1860), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (1929), pp. 23–24.
English (original)
It is fourteen years ago since yourself, then the leader of the country gentlemen...appealed to me to assist you at a moment of apparently overwhelming disaster. I ultimately agreed to do so...because, from my earliest years, my sympathies had been with the landed interest of England.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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