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It is not his duty or his right to express or convey his individual opinion.
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Hoar asserts that an advocate should not express personal opinions during legal proceedings.
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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.
But their names were wanting from the honorable roll of the men who accomplished them.
His pure and lofty counsel fell unheeded upon the ears of his near neighbors, and the people of Massachusetts did not listen very patiently to lectures on political purity or reform in civil service from New York city.
His life, so far as he took part in political affairs, was devoted to objects wholly public, never personal.
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