Sir Henry Taylor — a remark

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“Good nature and kindness towards those with whom they come in personal contact, at the expense of public interests, that is of those whom they never see, is the besetting sin of public men.”

Warning against private partiality that harms the wider public · The Statesman, chapter 23

Sir Henry Taylor

About Sir Henry Taylor

Sir Henry Taylor

18 October 1800–27 March 1886

Sir Henry Taylor occupies one of the more curious niches in nineteenth-century English letters: a poet who spent his working life not in garrets or universities but behind the desk of a government office, quietly shaping the administration of Britain's colonies while writing, in his spare hours, verse dramas that made…

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