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8 George Canning Quotes

George Canning offers lofty, poetic musings that weave history and imagination.

George Canning quotes

  1. I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.

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  2. I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

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  3. Story! God bless you! I have none to tell, sir.

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  4. I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first.

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  5. So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.

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  6. And finds, with keen, discriminating sight, Black 's not so black,-nor white so very white.

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  7. Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, Bold I can meet,-perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!

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  8. No, here 's to the pilot that weathered the storm!

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