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The country was never in a profounder quiet.' Do you comprehend the terrible significance of those words?
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This quote emphasizes the gravity of the political situation during a time of apparent calm, as noted by Alexander.
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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.
Thoughtful men who reverenced the safeguard known to civil judicial proceedings were appalled.
If Joel Weed lived as a beggar, Thurlow thought as a king.
And, Governor Seward, I have made it, though it be conceited in me to say so.
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