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Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

~George Canning

Topics: Delays Failure Indecision Parents

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But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!

~George Canning

Topics: Candid Friend Good Heaven Me Oh Save Send Thy Wrath

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Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.

~George Canning

Topics: Here Pilot Storm Weathered

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A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.

~George Canning

Topics: Alone Country Every Friend His Own Patriot Steady World

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I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.

~George Canning

Topics: Balance Existence New New World Old Redress World

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I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

~George Canning

Topics: Anything Except Prove Statistics Truth I Can

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In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.

~George Canning

Topics: Advantage Asking Cent Clap Commerce Content Dutch Equal Fault French Just Little Matters Much Offering Per Too Too Much Twenty

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Statesman

Born: April 11th, 1770

Died: August 8th, 1827

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