It seems to me that if a gratuitous declaration of this kind is made, it must produce an explosion; and that in a week’s time Hartington will have to consider whether he will lead the liberal party himself, or leave it to chaos.
Morley expresses concern that a certain declaration could lead to chaos within the Liberal party.
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Happy the man who from out the floods has fled the storm and found the haven; happy too is he who has surmounted toil and trouble.—Bacchae, 902-5.
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.
If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
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