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It is so easy to write, but to write honestly nearly impossible.
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John Morley
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Morley reflects on the challenges of writing honestly, highlighting the difficulty of true expression.
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Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.
If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
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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