Quotes by George Canning

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• Away with the cant of ''Measures, not men!'' - the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

  ― George Canning
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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 Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!

  ― George Canning
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• Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

  ― George Canning
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Subjects in these quotes:

• comparatively
• distinction
• everything
• indecision
• perhaps
• plagues

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