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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.
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John Morley
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Morley advocates for reducing bureaucratic writing to foster better relationships with the Indian populace.
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All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
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