But these things, which explain the attachment, the adoration of those whose ideas he represented, would not explain why it is that sentiments almost as fervent are felt and expressed by those whose ideas were not carried out by his policy.
Morley discusses the complex reasons behind the admiration for a leader, even among those who disagreed with his policies.
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People still believe that Russian diplomats are particularly crafty and clever, full of artifices and stratagems, but that is not the case.
True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.
A rendering less apt for this occasion finds favour with some scholars, that true virtue can never be restored to those who have once fallen away from it.
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