Quote#Time
The time is very critical—the game is, I believe, in our hands; but…
Quote byEdward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby · 1799–1869
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Benjamin Disraeli (18 January 1852), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Vol. I. 1804–1859 (1929), pp. 1132-1133.
English (original)
The time is very critical—the game is, I believe, in our hands; but in order to be played with ultimate success, it must be played honestly and manfully, and to take office with the purpose of throwing over, voluntarily, the main object of those who have raised us to it is to follow too closely an exemplar vitiis imitabile, to which I never can submit.
— Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
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