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Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow Quotes

1887–1952 Scotland

Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow (24 September 1887 – 5 January 1952) was a British Unionist politician, agriculturalist, and colonial administrator. He served as Governor-General and Viceroy of India from 1936 to 1943.

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Truth is the only foundation of honour, and the sunrest source of a man's influence with his fellow-men.

I do not question the sincerity or the good intentions of those who feel that way.

I well know that there are many people who press for swifter and more radical solutions of the problems before us.

We have, I suspect, a long way to go yet. We may have to face many very difficult and awkward situations. It may well be that the real test still lies ahead of us.

Advice can never take the place of experience. That which advice can sometimes do is to make experience more fruitful of good; to help us the better to understand the lessons of life; and when those lessons are sharp and unwelcome, to bear them with an even and unruffled mind.

No one can possess what we call good judgement, which is about the same thing as an instinct for recognizing Reasonable Probabilities, whose mind is not trained to follow truth. And in many of the most important things of life. Reasonable Probabilities are our only guides.

The removal from among us of a public man of exceptional capacity and marked personality still in the prime of life, is at any time a tragedy. The sense of loss on personal and public grounds, and the inevitable diminution of the effective influence which at all times so essentially depends on the winning personality of the individual, are keen and real.

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