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The Mirrors of Downing Street

CHAPTER IX
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Men watch him, but do not follow him.

He beguiles the reason, but never warms the emotions.

You may see in him the wonderful and lightning movements of the brain, but never the beating of a steadfast heart.

He has almost every gift of statesmanship, and yet, lacking the central force of the mind which gives strength and power to character, these gifts are for ever at the sport of circumstance.

His inconsistencies assume the appearance of shifts and dodges.
There is one particular way in which I think his inconsistencies have been dangerous to his career.


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