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If at any time he had formed such a habit he had put it under his feet.
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Hoar expresses his belief that if Grant had ever struggled with drinking, he had overcome it.
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His life, so far as he took part in political affairs, was devoted to objects wholly public, never personal.
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.
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.
One of the virtues of General Sheridan was that he knew when to act without orders.
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