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The history of all his other attempts may be comprised in three words-- Swagger, quarrel, failure.
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Hoar summarizes Butler's political career as characterized by failure and conflict.
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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.
He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
Perhaps, taking him all together, the most brilliant man in Harvard in my time was John Felton.
To yield to him was never the way to win his good will.
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