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No person, civil or military, complains that he appropriated to himself any honor belonging to another.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “No person, civil or military, complains that he appropriated to himself any honor belonging to another.”
Editor's note · Context
Sumner emphasizes the integrity of a person who never claimed undeserved honors.
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