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3RD VISCOUNT PALMERSTON, HENRY JOHN TEMPLE
English statesman
(1784 - 1865)

Accidental and fortuitous concourse of atoms.
      - on the combination of parties led by Disraeli and Gladstone
        [Circumstance]

Dirt is not dirt, but only something in the wrong place.
      - [Dirt]

It cannot be made, it shall not be made, it will not be made; but if it were made there would be a war between France and England for the possession of Egypt.
      - in a speech, referring to the Suez Canal (an example of an indiscreet and unfulfilled prophecy)
        [War]

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