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Grover Cleveland: I am inclined to think it would have been a fortunate thing if in this case it could have been demonstrated that a man…

On the recordJuly 5, 1886
I am inclined to think it would have been a fortunate thing if in this case it could have been demonstrated that a man could thrive so well with the chronic diarrhea for fifty-two years as its existence in the case of this good old gentleman would prove.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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