Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Source: Speech of 9 November 1867.
“Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.”
Speech, Jan. 14, 1766, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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