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The limit of possible variation between character and opinion, ay, between character and belief, is widening, and will widen.
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John Morley
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Morley discusses the evolving relationship between a person's character and their beliefs, suggesting a growing divergence.
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I think they will commit a great error if they take this course.
There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.
This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.
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