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These gifts are the highest ornaments of a noble and beautiful character; they are surer guides to success and loftier elements of true greatness than what is commonly called genius.
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Hoar asserts that certain virtues are essential for true greatness and success in life.
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This Treaty would make us a vulgar, common place empire, controlling subject races and vassal states, in which one class must forever rule and other classes forever obey.
When the treaty was signed, the struggle began between freedom and slavery for the control of this imperial domain.
But I confess I like to leave on record, if I may, some evidence which will contradict the charge so constantly made by critics near home, that I am a man of intense partisan and personal bitterness.
One of the virtues of General Sheridan was that he knew when to act without orders.
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