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A man has no business to lay himself out for being prime minister, or to place himself in the way of it, unless he is prepared to take all the incidents of the post whether disagreeable or not.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “A man has no business to lay himself out for being prime minister, or to place himself in the way of it, unless he is…”
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Morley emphasizes the responsibilities that come with the role of prime minister, highlighting the need for readiness to face challenges.
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Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.
A rendering less apt for this occasion finds favour with some scholars, that true virtue can never be restored to those who have once fallen away from it.
True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
For this line of contention he was called an “unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,” and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is a blunder.
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