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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer—that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffling, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt (1778–1830), British essayist. repr. In Complete Works, vol. 7, ed. P.P. Howe (1932). Political Essays, preface (1819).

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