I hope, my lord, if you ever come within a mile of my house that you will stay there all night." - Meaning and context.">
In a letter.
 • Falkiner, C. Litton (1902), Studies in Irish History and Biography, mainly of the Eighteenth Century chapter: Sir Boyle Roche, pages: p.230, place: New York, publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co.
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I hope, my lord, if you ever come within a mile of my house that you will stay there all night.

— Boyle Roche

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 • Falkiner, C. Litton (1902), Studies in Irish History and Biography, mainly of the Eighteenth Century chapter: Sir Boyle Roche, pages: p.230, place: New York, publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Boyle Roche

About Boyle Roche

Sir Boyle Roche, 1st Baronet (October 1736 – 5 June 1807) was an Irish politician, famed for his highly ornamented and often inaccurate speech, which often included amusing mixed metaphors and malapropisms.