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I only say that it has been my supreme good fortune to be the son of a Commonwealth among whose noble and high-minded people a better and more fastidious habit has prevailed.
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Hoar expresses gratitude for being raised in a community with high moral standards.
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However any political antagonist might dislike him, every antagonist must respect him, and nobody could laugh at him.
The irrepressible conflict had to be fought out.
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.
But, as I have already said, when the time came, he always subordinated his own desire to what he deemed the welfare of the public.
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