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He will have a high and a permanent place in literature, which none but Defoe shares.
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Hoar asserts that the individual he speaks of will hold a significant place in literature, comparable to that of Defoe.
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The honor and good fame of our beloved State is far above any question of party.
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.
It relates to matters more permanent than human life.
He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
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