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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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202 |
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AUTHOR:
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Napoleon I (1769–1821) |
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QUOTATION:
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If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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NAPOLEON.—Unverified except for its publication in The Mind of Napoleon, ed. and trans. J. Christopher Herold, p. 249 (1955). In this source the words above were from a conversation, reported in English, in 1817. |
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SUBJECTS:
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China |
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