Although possessing the generosity of a rich nature, he preferred to work within lines of purpose without heady enthusiasms or reckless extremes, and his remarkable gifts as an executive, coupled with the study of politics as a fine art, soon made him a manager of men.
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An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people, until he fancies himself commissioned by heaven to liberate them.
He used to get angry with men simply because they voted against him on questions in which he took an interest.
This Administration cannot now save this Union, if it would.
As he lived, so he died, a strange, lonely, unhappy man, out of tune with the beautiful world in which he was permitted to exist upward of four score years.
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