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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

6150 Thomas Babington

 
NUMBER:6150
AUTHOR:Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay (1800–1859)
QUOTATION:  In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.
ATTRIBUTION:On Frederic the Great. 1842.