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"Story! God bless you! I have none to tell, sir."
George Canning / The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder.

The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first."
George Canning / The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder.

The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES."
George Canning / The Loves of the Triangles. Line 178.

The Loves of the Triangles. Line 178.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"And finds, with keen, discriminating sight, Black 's not so black,--nor white so very white."
George Canning / New Morality.

New Morality.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"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!"
George Canning / New Morality.

New Morality.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old."
George Canning / The King's Message, Dec. 12, 1826.

The King's Message, Dec. 12, 1826.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"No, here 's to the pilot that weathered the storm!"
George Canning / The Pilot that weathered the Storm.

The Pilot that weathered the Storm.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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