John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

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John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, KG, GCMG, PC (1792-08-181878-05-28), known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was a British Whig and Liberal politician who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century.

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  • The wisdom of many and the wit of one.
    • Remark about proverbs, said to Sir James Mackintosh on October 6, 1830), reported in Sir James Mackintosh, Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh, Vol. 2 (1836), p. 473

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