Source of a quotation

[Joel S. Berson]

Thanks, Fred.  I tried your index for various conjugations of "know",
and didn't look for "wish", "anything", or "everything", thinking
they were implausible as keywords (perhaps I was mistaken in that) --
but I surely didn't think of "cocksure"!

Joel

At 10/16/2009 01:47 PM, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
>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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>Joel S. Berson [Berson at ATT.NET]
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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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