Thought the effect of diplomacy to be bad on the character; to train yourself to practise the airs of genial friendship towards men from whom you are doing your best to hide yourself, and out of whom you are striving to worm that which they wish to conceal.
Morley reflects on the negative impact of diplomacy on personal integrity and relationships.
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The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.
How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?
There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.
Inspire him with the desire of pleasing; he will soon know more of the art than all the masters could teach him.
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