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Every account of political history from the inside will exhibit abundant evidence of wickedness, wrongdoing, and petty personal motives, of low ambitions, of bargains and sales, of timidity, of treachery.
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Hoar critiques political history for its prevalence of wrongdoing and personal motives.
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