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John Morley: “Let me beseech my hon. friends at least to try for some sense of balanced proportion, instead of allowing their wrath at…”

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Let me beseech my hon. friends at least to try for some sense of balanced proportion, instead of allowing their wrath at one particular incident of policy to blot out from their vision all the wide and durable operations, to which we have set firm and persistent hands.
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John Morley

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Morley urges for a balanced perspective on policy decisions rather than focusing solely on isolated incidents.

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