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Quotes › Authors › J › James Russell Lowell › Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.
  • Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

    James Russell Lowell: Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.
    James Russell Lowell
    1884 'On Democracy', speech in Birmingham, 6 Oct.
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