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He had in this respect no superior in his time, save Lincoln alone.
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Hoar compares a notable figure's abilities to those of Abraham Lincoln, highlighting his exceptional qualities.
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His life, so far as he took part in political affairs, was devoted to objects wholly public, never personal.
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.
There has probably never been a man in our history upon whom so few people looked with indifference.
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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