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No man in the country, he said, was more equivocal in his character.
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This quote critiques a man's ambiguous character, reflecting the complexities of political personas.
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But Tilden, conscious of the need of an anti-Tweed legislature, had surmised the Ring's plan as early as Tweed devised it, and he replied with firmness that everything beside the legislative ticket was of minor importance to him.
Thoughtful men who were not in any sense political partisans gave careful heed to his words.
An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people, until he fancies himself commissioned by heaven to liberate them.
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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