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1773–1850 Scotland

Francis Jeffrey (October 23 1773 – June 26 1850) was a Scottish critic, political writer, judge and lawyer. He was for some twenty-six years editor of the Edinburgh Review.

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God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to see what importance we ascribe to it, and to its little ornaments and distinctions.

He will always see the most beauty whose affections are the warmest and most exercised, whose imagination is the most powerful, and who has most accustomed himself to attend to the objects by which he is surrounded.

Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better one myself.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.