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Be it however, what it may, we politicians are children playing with toys in comparison to that great work of and for manhood, which has to be done, and will yet be done, in restoring belief.
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John Morley
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Morley compares the work of politicians to a child's play, emphasizing the greater task of restoring belief in humanity.
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