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GOVERNMENT > prime minister > William Lamb Melbourne
It wounds a...
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It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
Source: In The Young Melbourne, ch. 9, by David Cecil, 1939.
-- William Lamb Melbourne, (Mar 15 1779-1848), English prime minister; He was twice prime minister, and close friend and chief political adviser during the early reign of Queen Victoria.