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He was absolutely simple, modest, courteous and without pretence.
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Hoar describes a colleague's admirable qualities, emphasizing simplicity and modesty as virtues in public life.
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There has probably never been a man in our history upon whom so few people looked with indifference.
But I confess I like to leave on record, if I may, some evidence which will contradict the charge so constantly made by critics near home, that I am a man of intense partisan and personal bitterness.
The irrepressible conflict had to be fought out.
It will be better for his reputation that the chapter of that history which relates to him shall be written by a historian with a full and clear sense of those faults and infirmities, concealing nothing, and extenuating nothing.
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