"I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly."
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In Horace Twiss, The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon (1844), p. 350
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John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon
John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon (4 June 1751 β 13 January 1838) was Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1801 to 1806 and from 1807 to 1827.
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