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The deed is done, the nail is driven, Spanish America is free; and if we do not mismanage our affairs sadly, she is English.

— George Canning

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I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908)

I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.

And finds, with keen, discriminating sight,
Black ’s not so black,—nor white so very white.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

No, here ’s to the pilot that weathered the storm!

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.

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