the best of men are but men at best
- the best of men are but men at best
The General Lambert referred to in quot. 1680 was the Parliamentarian commander John Lambert (1619–83), who played an important role in Cromwell’s military victories over the Royalists in the English Civil War.
1680 J. AUBREY Letter 15 June in Brief Lives (1898) I. 12 I remember one sayeing of generall Lambert’s, that ‘the best of men are but men at best’.
1885 T. HARLEY Moon Lore 191 We can but repeat to ourselves the saying, ‘The best of men are but men at best’.
2006 Africa News 16 April (online) The suave and customer-friendly postal officers exercised the required social graces, ensuring that their customer understood, even sympathised with, these seemingly able and efficient Kenyans, toiling under an imperfect international postal system. After all, ‘the best of men are men at best.’
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