"The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom."

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Character of Pulteney; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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Character of Pulteney; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)