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Never make a gesture for the sake of making one.
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Hoar advises that gestures in speaking should be meaningful rather than arbitrary.
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His life, so far as he took part in political affairs, was devoted to objects wholly public, never personal.
Perhaps, taking him all together, the most brilliant man in Harvard in my time was John Felton.
However any political antagonist might dislike him, every antagonist must respect him, and nobody could laugh at him.
What was said helped to arouse public attention, and the masses of the people--always pure and incorruptible--set themselves earnestly and successfully to reform the abuses.
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