When, finally, his body was transferred from the sofa in the library where he had written himself into an immortal fame, to the cemetery on Second Avenue, the obsequies became the funeral not merely of a man but of an age.
This quote reflects on the significance of a funeral as a representation of both an individual and the era they embodied.
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He saw the importance of devoting the resources of the State to the reduction of its debt.
And what have I to lose by withdrawing and leaving the party unembarrassed?
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.
Of imposing appearance, he looked like a man formed to rule.
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