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When the necessity was over, and the man or the boy in any generation got a college education, or was called to take part in public affairs, he rose at once and easily to the demands of an exalted station.
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Hoar discusses the ability of individuals to rise to prominence after receiving education or public responsibilities.
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His pure and lofty counsel fell unheeded upon the ears of his near neighbors, and the people of Massachusetts did not listen very patiently to lectures on political purity or reform in civil service from New York city.
It would have been a worse civil war than that of the Rebellion, because the country would have been divided not by sections, but by parties.
The large majority was made up of sensible, strong-headed country farmers, rather slow in making up their minds, but making them up always on considerations of what was best for the Commonwealth.
The honor and good fame of our beloved State is far above any question of party.
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