"[A proverb is] one man's wit, and all men's wisdom."
— John Russell

January 1, 1970

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John Russell, Remark to James Mackintosh on October 6, 1830, reported in his posthumous memoir, Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh, Vol. 2 (1836), p. 472