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"Lessons of Noblemen" - Futility Closet

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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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Futility Closet broke the news in on Wednesday, April 23, 2025.
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