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GOVERNMENT > prime minister > William Lamb Melbourne
[F]riends praise your...
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[F]riends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.
Source: In The Young Melbourne, by David Cecil, ch. 9, 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.