"Lessons of Noblemen" - Futility Closet
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"Lessons of Noblemen" - Futility Closet
According to the Guardian (March 1872), Lord Palmerston once dictated this sentence to 11 British cabinet ministers, “not one of whom, it is said, spelled it correctly”: It is disagreeable to witness the embarrassment of a harassed peddler gauging the symmetry of a peeled potato. “And Lord R. Cecil, in the House of Commons, some time ago, quoted the following lines which he said were given as a dictation exercise by an assistant commissioner to …
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