Under the circumstances, while the duty of the hour evidently was to study the means of possible accommodation, the present aspect of affairs was that of a probable split, independently of the question what course I might individually pursue.
Morley reflects on the political landscape and the potential for division within the government, emphasizing the need for compromise.
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If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
People still believe that Russian diplomats are particularly crafty and clever, full of artifices and stratagems, but that is not the case.
Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.
Happy the man who from out the floods has fled the storm and found the haven; happy too is he who has surmounted toil and trouble.—Bacchae, 902-5.
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