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You may well be amused to think how many political reputations have risen and set during your long and sunny reign.
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Hoar humorously comments on the longevity of certain political figures compared to the rarity of exceptional individuals.
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His life, so far as he took part in political affairs, was devoted to objects wholly public, never personal.
The irrepressible conflict had to be fought out.
He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.
Certainly if he had performed the promise of his boyhood he would have been one of the foremost men in American literature.
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