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The ordinary human tendency to croak never dies, especially in the politics of party.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “The ordinary human tendency to croak never dies, especially in the politics of party.”
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Morley reflects on the persistent pessimism often found in political discourse.
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What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.
My desire is thoroughly to shake up all the materials of the question.
This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.
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