As for myself, I can in no way understand how it is that for a full half century I have been permitted and enabled to resist a pressure of special liabilities attaching to my path of life, to which so many have given way.
Morley reflects on his resilience against life's pressures over fifty years.
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If I were going to remain Indian Secretary for some time to come, my every effort would be devoted to an abatement of that enormous amount of writing.
The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.
Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.
An Indian gentleman has been placed on the Council of the Viceroy--not an everyday transaction.
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