"DissnreLation is but a faint kind of policy or wisdom; for it asketh a strong wit and a strong heart to know when to tell truth, and to do it; therefore it is the weaker sort of politicians that are the great dissemblers." So wrote certain tenants of Lord Dalkeith might be exposed, if known to vote for himself against Lord Dalkeith, who was his political opponent, said:—"There la not a bad story told about secrecy which may apply to a vote, and it is not altogether inappropriate now, Sir Walter Scott, when he was asked whether he wrote the Waverly Novels, said No, I did not; and if I had written them, I should have made you precisely the same answer. (Laughter and cheers.) I do not think any one can say that a person who gave that answer was guilty of avy act of deceit,
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