I did not think the adjustment of personal relations, or the ordinary exigencies of party, constituted a call upon me to continue my long life in a course of constant pressure and constant contention with half my fellow-countrymen, until nothing remained but to step into the grave.
Morley expresses his reluctance to continue in politics under constant pressure and contention, reflecting on the toll it takes.
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Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.
People still believe that Russian diplomats are particularly crafty and clever, full of artifices and stratagems, but that is not the case.
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.
Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.
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