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But it will be a great mistake to think that the American people do not estimate such things at their true value.
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Hoar asserts that the American public does value serious discourse, contrary to some beliefs.
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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.
As it is, the jetties have been of great value and well worth their cost.
Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
To yield to him was never the way to win his good will.
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