Quote#Wisdom
I was with you, Mr. Scott—till I heard your argument
Quote byEdward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow · 1731–1806
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Related by John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, in Horace Twiss, The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon (1844), p. 79..
English (original)
I was with you, Mr. Scott—till I heard your argument.
— Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
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