Source of a quotation

[Shapiro, Fred]

Joel,

First of all, I am very happy if you finally broke down and got a copy of the Yale Book of Quotations.  The quote you may be thinking of is in there on page 509:

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.
William Lamb, Second Viscount Melbourne, Quoted in _Lord Melbourne's Papers_ (1889)

Fred Shapiro



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Subject: Q: Source of a quotation

Does anyone recognize the following (or similar)?  I didn't find it in the YBQ.

"I only wish I knew as much about anything as he knows about everything."

Thanks,
Joel

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