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Even in pieces that were in their nature more or less official, he touched the occasions of life by a note that was not merely official, or was official in its best form.
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John Morley
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Morley comments on the balance between official duties and personal expression in public life.
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Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.
For this line of contention he was called an “unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,” and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is a blunder.
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.
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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