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John Morley: “Everybody will agree that it was better to have a minister writing his own articles in a respectable quarterly, than…”

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Everybody will agree that it was better to have a minister writing his own articles in a respectable quarterly, than doctoring other people’s articles with concomitants from a reptile fund.
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John Morley

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Morley argues for the value of ministers writing their own articles rather than relying on others, emphasizing integrity in journalism.

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