Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1815–1881) English churchman, Dean of Westminster
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 58.
“Wise command, wise obedience: the capability of these two is the net measure of culture, and human virtue, in every man; all good lies in the possession of these two capabilities; all evil, wretchedness and ill-success in the want of these.”
1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), The New Downing Street (April 15, 1850)
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