“Few things will occasion a statesman so much embarrassment as a prevailing opinion that he will yield that to importunity which he ought to proffer to less forward parties upon juster grounds, and that whether he grants or refuses no harm can be done by asking.”

—  Henry Taylor

Source: The Statesman (1836), Ch. 29. p. 219

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English playwright and poet 1800–1886

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