Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.
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He swore he would never marry, and yet now, in despite of his heart, he eats his meat without grudging; and how you may be converted I know no...
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Proverbs 23:7:
For he is the kind of person who is always thinking about the cost. 'Eat and drink,' he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
(NIV)
For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. As one who reckons, he says to you, eat and drink, yet his heart is not with you [but is grudging the cost].
(AMP)
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
(KJV)
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