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Gladstone’s extraordinary power, and of the sure respect of a British audience for manful handling and firm dealing in a minister, if only the appeal be high enough.
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Morley comments on Gladstone's abilities and the respect he commanded from the British public during his speeches.
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I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.
This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
Inspire him with the desire of pleasing; he will soon know more of the art than all the masters could teach him.
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