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We had been constantly challenged to a dissolution, and not to take the challenge up would be a proof of mistrust, weakness, and a faint heart.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “We had been constantly challenged to a dissolution, and not to take the challenge up would be a proof of mistrust…”
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Morley argues that failing to respond to calls for dissolution would signal weakness and mistrust.
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What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.
Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.
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I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.
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