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James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

Lord John Russell

Collision is as necessary to produce virtue in men, as it is to elicit fire in inanimate matter; and chivalry is the essence of virtue.

Conspicuous by its absence.

The habit of party in England is not to ask the alliance of a man of genius, but to follow the guidance of a man of character.

The wit of one man, and the wisdom of many.His definition of a proverb.