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Should the responsibilities of that successorship ever be devolved upon me, I shall endeavor so to fulfil them, that these dead words should become a living soul.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Mann expresses his commitment to fulfilling the responsibilities of leadership with passion and purpose.

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