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Slow he speaks in accents solemn, Life is all an empty hum, Man, by adulation only Can'st thou ever great become.
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Hoar reflects on the nature of life and greatness, emphasizing the role of public admiration.
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He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
However any political antagonist might dislike him, every antagonist must respect him, and nobody could laugh at him.
But their names were wanting from the honorable roll of the men who accomplished them.
Perhaps, taking him all together, the most brilliant man in Harvard in my time was John Felton.
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