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Gentlemen, you must not mistake me. I admit that he is the sworn foe of our nation, and, if you will, of the whole human race. But, gentlemen, we must be just to our enemy. We must not forget that he once shot a bookseller.

Source: Excusing himself in proposing a toast to Napoleon at a literary dinner; in The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, by G. O. Trevelyan.
-- Thomas Campbell, (Jul 27 1777-1844), Scotish poet; He is remembered chiefly for his sentimental and martial lyrics; he was one of the initiators of a plan to found what became the University of London.

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