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But as often happens, what it was easy to show ought to be done, was extremely hard to do.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “But as often happens, what it was easy to show ought to be done, was extremely hard to do.”
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Morley acknowledges the disparity between what is easy to advocate for and what is challenging to achieve in practice.
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