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I have thought over it, sworn over it, and prayed over it,” he said, “and I am going to pardon him!
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gutenberg.orgHenry Watterson: “I have thought over it, sworn over it, and prayed over it,” he said, “and I am going to pardon him!”
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Watterson recounts a moment of decision where a general expresses his intent to grant a pardon after deep contemplation.
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But my face in the glass I’ll serenely survey, And with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow— That this worn-out old stuff which is thread-bare to-day Shall become everlasting to-morrow.
It is love—love through grace of God—truth where we can find it—which shall irradiate the life that is.
With a kind of education—most men taught to read, very few to think—the masses are likely to demand yet more and more for themselves.
In short he was an opportunist void of conviction and indifferent to consistency.
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