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Reading with him in the days of his full vigour was a habitual communing with the master spirits of mankind, as a vivifying and nourishing part of life.
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John Morley
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Morley highlights the enriching experience of reading as a vital part of Gladstone's life and intellectual development.
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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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