I have not the smallest doubt we should at this moment have had a smaller expenditure if financial reformers had not directed their chief attention, not to the question how much of expenditure and taxes we shall have, but to the question how it should be raised....
Morley critiques financial reformers for focusing on tax collection methods rather than on controlling public expenditure.
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Inspire him with the desire of pleasing; he will soon know more of the art than all the masters could teach him.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
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