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Never rode to the wrong's redressing A worthier paladin.
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Hoar praises a person as a noble champion for justice, suggesting their actions were heroic and commendable.
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Certainly if he had performed the promise of his boyhood he would have been one of the foremost men in American literature.
The honor and good fame of our beloved State is far above any question of party.
Judge Hoar strenuously insisted that the Judges of the newly created Circuit Courts of the United States should be made up of the best lawyers, without Senatorial dictation.
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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