Pinning down a quote

Aug. 10th, 2009 10:34 pm
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Huh--I'd never seen this in the original, though I had seen its target correctly identified:

It was Lord Melbourne . . . who said, "I wish I was as cock-sure of anything as Tom Macaulay is cock-sure of everything."
--anon., The Spectator, 30 November 1889.


(Amazingly, the Spectator included the Wikipedia links. Very forward-looking magazine, that.)
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