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  • Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

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    William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot (1910). “Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes”

  • Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

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    1884 'On Democracy', speech in Birmingham, 6 Oct.

  • They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin.

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    James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.66
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James Russell Lowell

  • Born: February 22, 1819
  • Died: August 12, 1891
  • Occupation: Poet
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