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But then people are so apt to think once, or half of once; to take the meaning that suits their own wish or purpose best, and then to treat that as the only meaning.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “But then people are so apt to think once, or half of once; to take the meaning that suits their own wish or purpose…”
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Morley reflects on how people often misinterpret meanings based on their own biases, highlighting a common issue in communication.
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What I endeavoured to show was that King George III., without changing his opinion of the justice of his war against the colonies, was obliged to give it up on account of a change of public opinion, and was not open to blame for so doing.
Do not weary or fret or nag him with your superior wisdom.
How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
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