pithiest

Updated: October 26, 2025

Do we want an excuse for sharing the gold of our neighbours, or abusing them if they resist? Is not our mutual, our pithiest plea, 'Distress'? True, your patriot calls it 'distress of the country; but does he ever, a whit more than we do, mean any distress but his own?

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Paul Clifford — Volume 06