But I respectfully claim the right not to call myself so, and on this claim, I have I believe acted throughout my life, without a single exception; and I feel that were I to waive it, I should at once put in hazard that allegiance to Truth, which is at once the supreme duty and the supreme joy of life.
Morley emphasizes the importance of allegiance to truth as a guiding principle throughout his life.
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Do not weary or fret or nag him with your superior wisdom.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
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.
I am trying to feel my way through the most difficult problem, the most difficult situation that a responsible Government can have to face.
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