H. H. Asquith Quotes

Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it.

H. H. Asquith

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• Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it.

  

  H. H. Asquith
  • Power
  • Fields
  • Hateful