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If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness.
If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness.
Learn to think continentally.
Learn to think continentally.
 It is strange so great a statesman should
 Be so sublime a poet.  
 It is strange so great a statesman should
 Be so sublime a poet. 
 Why don't you show us a statesman who can rise up to the 
emergency, and cave in the emergency's read more 
 Why don't you show us a statesman who can rise up to the 
emergency, and cave in the emergency's head. 
 The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or 
false.  
 The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or 
false. 
Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries.
Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries.
 Who would not praise Patrico's high desert,
 His hand unstain'd, his uncorrupted heart,
  His comprehensive head? all read more 
 Who would not praise Patrico's high desert,
 His hand unstain'd, his uncorrupted heart,
  His comprehensive head? all interests weigh'd,
   All Europe sav'd, yet Britain not betray'd. 
 Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere,
 In action faithful, and in honour clear;
  Who broke read more 
 Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere,
 In action faithful, and in honour clear;
  Who broke no promise, served no private end,
   Who gained no title, and who lost no friend,
    Ennobled by himself, by all approved,
     And praised, unenvied, by the Muse he loved. 
 A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken 
together, would by my standard of a statesman.  
 A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken 
together, would by my standard of a statesman.