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For every day, I may say, of these five, we have been engaged in laboriously rolling up hill the stone of Sisyphus.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “For every day, I may say, of these five, we have been engaged in laboriously rolling up hill the stone of Sisyphus.”
Editor's note · Context
Morley uses the metaphor of Sisyphus to illustrate the relentless and seemingly futile nature of their political efforts.
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