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They entitle him to the highest respect, and should far outweigh his faults and mistakes.
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Hoar argues that a person's positive contributions should outweigh their mistakes.
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Never rode to the wrong's redressing A worthier paladin.
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.
It will be better for his reputation that the chapter of that history which relates to him shall be written by a historian with a full and clear sense of those faults and infirmities, concealing nothing, and extenuating nothing.
He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
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