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Many men have accomplished a great deal of good by striving to purify it.
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Hoar acknowledges that many have succeeded in doing good by working to purify their political parties.
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His life, so far as he took part in political affairs, was devoted to objects wholly public, never personal.
Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
As it is, the jetties have been of great value and well worth their cost.
He would undoubtedly have taken a very high place in the public and official life of his generation if he had found himself in accord with either of the great political parties.
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