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

10465 Appendix John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:10465
AUTHOR:Appendix
QUOTATION:Wisdom of many and the wit of one.
ATTRIBUTION:A definition of a proverb which Lord John Russell gave one morning at breakfast at Mardock’s—“One man’s wit, and all men’s wisdom.”—Memoirs of Mackintosh, vol. ii. p. 473.