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It was the true homage which virtue and patriotism must ever receive--more honorable, and far more grateful to its object, than all the servility and flattery which power and patronage can so easily purchase.
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Seward reflects on the genuine respect that virtue and patriotism command, contrasting it with the superficiality of flattery.
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