First-rate men will not canvass mobs; and if they did, the mobs would not elect the first-rate men. (Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury)

First-rate men will not canvass mobs; and if they did, the mobs would not elect the first-rate men.

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

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