A sure though evil instinct has guided them in choosing rather to demoralise our finance, than to pay their way by imposing taxes, but I do not see how they are long to escape this difficulty....
Morley critiques the government's financial decisions and their long-term implications.
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I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.
Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?
Inspire him with the desire of pleasing; he will soon know more of the art than all the masters could teach him.
The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.
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