Quote#Wisdom
I stand on the topp of the hill, where I knowe the smallest slipp…
Quote byRobert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester · 1532–1588
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: From a letter to Thomas Wood (19 August 1576); Patrick Collinson, ed., Letters of Thomas Wood, Puritan (1960), pp. 13, 14.
English (original)
I stand on the topp of the hill, where I knowe the smallest slipp semeth a fall.
— Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
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