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There was no person among the Faculty at Cambridge who seemed less likely to commit such a bloody and cruel crime as that for which he was executed.
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Hoar comments on the unlikely nature of a faculty member committing a violent crime.
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There has probably never been a man in our history upon whom so few people looked with indifference.
To yield to him was never the way to win his good will.
However any political antagonist might dislike him, every antagonist must respect him, and nobody could laugh at him.
He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
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