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William Seward: The circumstances of...

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The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.

Source: In 2,715 One-Line Quotations for Speakers, Writers & Raconteurs, by Edward F. Murphy, 1981.
-- William Seward, (May 16 1801-1872), US politician, abolitionist; He was secretary of state from 1861 to 1869; remembered for the purchase of Alaska in 1867--referred to at that time as Seward's Folly.


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