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It does not come easy, in west or east, to like foreign rule.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “It does not come easy, in west or east, to like foreign rule.”
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Morley acknowledges the inherent difficulty of accepting foreign rule, whether in India or elsewhere.
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