It is my boast that for the first four years of my membership of the House of Commons Gladstone was my leader... Gladstone was the greatest and most vital figure which ever appeared in British politics, and there will be a glorious resurrection for the memory, character, and the achievement and inspiration of that old man. We are suffering today largely from the complete neglect of the doctrines to which he devoted his life – the doctrines of peace.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "It is my boast that for the first four years of my membership of the House of Commons Gladstone was my leader... Gladstone was the greatest and most vital figure which ever appeared in British politics, and there will be a glorious resurrection for the memory, character, and the achievement and inspiration of that old man. We are suffering today largely from the complete neglect of the doctrines to which he devoted his life – the doctrines of peace." in the context of "David Lloyd George's remarks to A. J. Sylvester, as recorded in Sylvester's diary (24 April 1940), quoted in A. J. Sylvester, Life with Lloyd George: The Diary of A. J. Sylvester 1931-45, ed. Colin Cross (1975), p. 257" to mean that wisdom is timeless.