| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 9659 |
| QUOTATION: | I really am the meekest and mildest of men since Moses (though the public and mine “excellent wife” cannot find it out). |
| ATTRIBUTION: | George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824), British poet. Letter, March 8, 1822. Byron’s Letters and Journals, vol. 9, ed. Leslie A. Marchand (1979).
Referring to Numbers 12:3: “Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.” |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Byron Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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