Nevertheless I am driven to the conclusion to take the step to which you invite me, surrendering my inclination and my judgment to your arguments and to the counsel of some whom I have a right to consider my friends....
Morley expresses a moment of personal reflection on the pressures of decision-making in politics.
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They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.
No: not at all; because there is so much, I will not say of random variety, but there is so much independent use of mind upon the facts that we have to deal with, that I listen with endless edification and instruction.
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