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The first object of human association is the improvement of the condition of the associated.
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Seward highlights the fundamental purpose of human association as improving conditions for all involved.
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Their highest, their best praise, is your deep conviction of their merits, your affectionate gratitude for their labors and services.
Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record to their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.
It should be your care therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children, and exalt their courage, to accelerate and animate their industry and activity, to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice…
Fellow-citizens: There are moments in the progress of time which are the counters of whole ages.
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