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I had not heard the story, told by his son in a BBC radio feature, of the great Lloyd George, Prime Minister in the First World War.
LG, it appears, was fond of saying of inadequate political contemporaries that they were like one-ton lorries asked to carry ten-ton loads. "If every man was marked with his true capacity, like a lorry, how much simpler life would be," said the Welsh wizard.
It seems LG was tolerant towards contemporaries who proved unable to pull their weight through no fault of their own, but suitably scornful of the "cacklers" who never managed to lay an egg.