I assure you that a mirror of that kind does not give you a more grotesque reproduction of the human physiognomy, than some of these tremendous telegrams give you as to what is happening in India.
Morley compares misleading media reports to a distorted mirror, emphasizing their inaccuracies regarding India.
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True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
People still believe that Russian diplomats are particularly crafty and clever, full of artifices and stratagems, but that is not the case.
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.
It is a case so to speak of “limited liability.” We are bound in honour—you cannot put a legal construction upon it—to see in concert with others that these arrangements are maintained.
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