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There can be no more beautiful and enviable memorial to any man than a portrait upon the walls of a great college in the gallery where the figures and faces of its benefactors are collected.
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Hoar articulates the value of having a portrait in a college gallery as a lasting tribute to a person's contributions.
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One of the virtues of General Sheridan was that he knew when to act without orders.
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 pure and lofty counsel fell unheeded upon the ears of his near neighbors, and the people of Massachusetts did not listen very patiently to lectures on political purity or reform in civil service from New York city.
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