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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 254
AUTHOR: Benjamin Disraeli (1804–81)
QUOTATION: If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.
ATTRIBUTION: BENJAMIN DISRAELI, Endymion (vol. 20 of The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield), chapter 85, p. 153 (1904, reprinted 1976). Originally published 1880.
SUBJECTS: Compromise