The Third Notebook: Part Two
No Longer Human
“I decline the election. — It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.”
Speech at Bristol on declining the poll (9 September 1780)
1780s
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