Quote#Wisdom
The accident of an accident
Quote byEdward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow · 1731–1806
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech in Reply to the Duke of Grafton. Recounted in Butler's Reminiscences, vol. i. p. 142..
English (original)
The accident of an accident.
— Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
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