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The rise of any man from humble or still more from sordid beginnings to the heights of success always and naturally appeals strongly to the imagination.
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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Lodge reflects on the inspirational nature of personal success stories.
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His country asked the sacrifice and he gave it with solemn pride and uncomplaining lips.
No man ever prized sentiment or hated sentimentality more than he.
He was unfailingly attractive, because he was always perfectly natural and his own unconscious self.
He was also--and this is very revealing and explanatory, too, of his vast popularity--a man of ideals.