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When he died, every schoolboy thought he had lost a friend.
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Hoar reflects on the impact of a beloved figure on the youth of his community.
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There has probably never been a man in our history upon whom so few people looked with indifference.
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.
He would undoubtedly have taken a very high place in the public and official life of his generation if he had found himself in accord with either of the great political 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.
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