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You could not attack or rally him without some bright reply.
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Hoar reflects on the quick wit and clever responses of a colleague, highlighting the importance of sharp dialogue in intellectual circles.
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The honor and good fame of our beloved State is far above any question of party.
Certainly if he had performed the promise of his boyhood he would have been one of the foremost men in American literature.
His life, so far as he took part in political affairs, was devoted to objects wholly public, never personal.
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.
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