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I should think it well worth living for to have made that discovery.
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Hoar reflects on the value of intellectual discovery and its significance in life.
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But, as I have already said, when the time came, he always subordinated his own desire to what he deemed the welfare of the public.
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.
But their names were wanting from the honorable roll of the men who accomplished them.
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