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But somehow or other, I am strongly tempted to say there are occasions in life where the meanest thing a man can do is to do perfectly right.
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Hoar reflects on the moral complexities of right and wrong in challenging situations.
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It would have been a worse civil war than that of the Rebellion, because the country would have been divided not by sections, but by parties.
He would undoubtedly have taken a very high place in the public and official life of his generation if he had found himself in accord with either of the great political parties.
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.
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.
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