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The cause might seem inadequate, but the effect was undeniable.
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Blaine reflects on the impact of seemingly small causes leading to significant effects.
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Their success as civil magistrates, as legislators, as executives was not less marked and meritorious than their illustrious service in war.
The need of action and of energy so pressed upon him that he found no time to utter lamentation, none to indulge even in the most sacred personal grief.
He had placed himself in a position from which he could not with grace retreat, and to go forward in which was still further to blight his hopes of promotion in his party.
Their pirates burned your unarmed commerce upon every sea.
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