I felt ready to weep when you were treated with so much contumely by your opponent in your former struggle; and yet I rejoiced that you were educating this nation to believe in conscience and truth....
Morley expresses deep empathy for a colleague facing public scorn while recognizing the importance of conscience and truth.
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I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.
Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?
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I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.
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