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The history he loves and has helped to write and to make is not the history of a base and mean people, who have drifted by accident into empire.
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Hoar reflects on the noble history of the nation, emphasizing that it is not defined by base actions but by greatness.
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His election as Governor extracted the people from the mire of Know Nothingism.
I am afraid they have of late yielded for a time to one strong temptation and missed an opportunity for still greater glory, that never will come back.
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He indignantly rejected it, and declared he would not eat a creature that he loved.
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