It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.
To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself.
A Minister can always give a reason; and, if he be clever, he can generally when doing so punish the man who asks for it. The punishing of an influential enemy is an indiscretion; but an obscure questioner may often be crushed with good effect.
An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.
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