Walpole by John Morley ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
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The Importance of Time and Address
It is certainly a mistake to dismiss wall pole as a pure cynic he laughed at the patriotic professions of his opponents but then they deserve no better. He refused to expect too much for men but this is a virtue and not a vice in one who has to government as they are and not as the moralist nobody strives to make them government like all the practical arts means the overcoming of difficulties it is the greatest of the practical arts because its ends are the highest and the difficulties the most subtle complex and incalculable. In the world's finest estimate character goes farther than act imagination than utility in its leaders strike us as much by what they were as by what they did. No statesman
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