Quote#World
In this world I shall never be anything but a mere moderate– behind…
Quote byThomas Fowell Buxton · 1837–1915
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1849), 15 March 1821, quoted in Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Chapter 7, p. 94.
English (original)
In this world I shall never be anything but a mere moderate– behind the foremost, and before the last.
— Thomas Fowell Buxton
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