We agree in desiring a strong and constant play between the thoughts, the ideals, the institutions, of Englishmen in the island home and Englishmen who have carried its rational freedom and its strenuous industry to new homes in every sea.
This quote highlights Morley's belief in the importance of a dynamic exchange of ideas and values between Englishmen at home and abroad.
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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.
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Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.
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