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He accomplished wise public ends by wise means.
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Hoar commends the ability to achieve public goals through wise methods.
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The large majority was made up of sensible, strong-headed country farmers, rather slow in making up their minds, but making them up always on considerations of what was best for the Commonwealth.
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.
He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.
He indignantly rejected it, and declared he would not eat a creature that he loved.
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