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It is hard to imagine two propositions on the merits more indisputable, but a parliamentary resolution is not to be judged by its verbal contents only.
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John Morley
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Morley reflects on the complexities of parliamentary resolutions beyond their wording.
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This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
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.
Is it natural effervescence, or is it deadly fermentation?
What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.
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