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Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries.
Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries.
Learn to think impartially.
Learn to think impartially.
Spheres of influence.
Spheres of influence.
 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. 
 Peace. commerce, and honest friendship with all 
nations--entangling alliances with none.  
 Peace. commerce, and honest friendship with all 
nations--entangling alliances with none. 
 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. 
 If one has no better method of enticement to offer, the cordial 
agreement seems to us to be the read more 
 If one has no better method of enticement to offer, the cordial 
agreement seems to us to be the best compromise.
 [Fr., Si l'on n'a pas de meilleurs moyen de seduction a lui 
offrir, l'entente cordiale nous parait fort compromise.] 
 I have the courage of my opinions, but I have not the temerity to 
give a political blank cheque read more 
 I have the courage of my opinions, but I have not the temerity to 
give a political blank cheque to Lord Salisbury. 
 Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation?--Why quit 
our own to stand upon foreign ground?--Why by interweaving read more 
 Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation?--Why quit 
our own to stand upon foreign ground?--Why by interweaving our 
destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and 
prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, 
interest, humour or caprice?