Quote#Wisdom
The Memorial I have read, and doubt not its being a very proper one;…
Quote byHenry Pelham · 1694–1754
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to the Duke of Newcastle (18 August 1753), quoted in William Coxe, Memoirs of the Administration of The Right Honourable Henry Pelham, Collected from the Family Papers, and Other Authentic Documents, Vol. II (1829), p. 491.
English (original)
The Memorial I have read, and doubt not its being a very proper one; I am no judge of the propriety of such draughts, especially in French, which language I understand very imperfectly. But that we must speak strong, and abide by what we say, I know very well.
— Henry Pelham
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