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If the thing is unjust, thou hast not succeeded; no, not tho bonfires blazed from North to South, and bells rang, and editors wrote leading-articles, and the just thing lay trampled out of sight, to all mortal eyes an abolished and annihilated thing. Success?
And yet how happy were they sua si bona norint! Think what a comfort it would be to belong to a little state like this; not to abuse their privilege, but philosophically to use it. If I were a Belgian, I would not care one single fig about politics. I would not read thundering leading-articles. I would not have an opinion. What's the use of an opinion here?
In a few years thou wilt be dead and dark, all cold, eyeless, deaf; no blaze of bonfires, ding-dong of bells or leading-articles visible or audible to thee again at all forever: What kind of success is that! Into the question whether Scott was a great man or not, we do not propose to enter deeply. It is, as too usual, a question about words.
'You will laugh at me, he said. 'I am in Parliament. 'You are? I never see newspapers. She added it as if to excuse herself for not being aware of his public activity. 'Oh, I am still far from being a subject of leading-articles, Wilfrid exclaimed. 'Indeed, I gave you no answer to your question. My life's work is non-existent.
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