" But others would think of it, and you would find that there were difficulties. But you are not thinking of it in earnest?” “Yes, in earnest.” “Why so? I should have thought that every day had removed you further and further from any such idea.” “The ground I’m on at present is so slippery.” “Well, yes. I can understand that. But yet it is less slippery than it used to be.” “Ah; — you do not exactly see. What if I were to lose my seat?” “You are safe at least for the next four years, I should say.” “Ah; — no one can tell. And suppose I took it into my head to differ from the Government?” “You must not do that. You have put yourself into a boat with these men, and you must remain in the boat. I should have thought all that was easy to you.” “It is not so easy as it seems. The very necessity of sitting still in the boat is in itself irksome, — very irksome. And then there comes some crisis in which a man cannot sit still. "

― Anthony Trollope , Complete Works of Anthony Trollope