George Canning
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"George Canning", Fellow of the Royal Society/FRS, was a British statesman and politician who served as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs/Foreign Secretary and was briefly Prime Minister of the United Kingdom/Prime Minister.

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Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

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Away with the can't of ''Measures, not men!'' / the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

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

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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.

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

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I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first - / Wretch! whom no sense of wrongs can rouse to vengeance; / Sordid, unfeeling, reprobate, degraded, / Spiritless outcast!

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Story! God bless you! I have none to tell, Sir.

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Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.

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And finds, with keen discriminating sight, / Black's not so black; - nor white so very white.

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