Wendell Phillips (1811–1884) American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer
Lecture: The Lost Arts, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“What if he has borrowed the matter and spoiled the form, as it oft falls out?”
— Michel De Montaigne, book Essays
Book III, Ch. 8. Of the Art of Conversation
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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