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He raised himself from a humble place, unaided, under the stimulant of a native and eager desire for excellence.
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Hoar admires an individual's rise to success through determination and hard work.
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He indignantly rejected it, and declared he would not eat a creature that he loved.
He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
Edward Everett preached a sermon when he was twenty-four years old before a large audience in the Representatives Chamber at Washington which was heard with breathless silence.
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.
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