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... but you have taught me in our long and unbroken devotion to each other that nothing keeps the heart so young and so fresh as the habit of reviving the best deeds of our fellow - creatures and forgetting the worst .
... but you have taught me in our long and unbroken devotion to each other that nothing keeps the heart so young and so fresh as the habit of reviving the best deeds of our fellow - creatures and forgetting the worst .
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Robed in his dressing - gown , he spoke a few minutes , but in a manner I shall never forget . His voice , always clear and sonorous , rolled with deeper volume over the crowd . There was no bitterness , but an inexpressible sadness in ...
Robed in his dressing - gown , he spoke a few minutes , but in a manner I shall never forget . His voice , always clear and sonorous , rolled with deeper volume over the crowd . There was no bitterness , but an inexpressible sadness in ...
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I got through the struggle triumphantly , but I can never forget the act of the man who , in the darkest hour , extended his helping hand . Nor did his magnanimity stop here . Many of his adherents believed I ought to have supported him ...
I got through the struggle triumphantly , but I can never forget the act of the man who , in the darkest hour , extended his helping hand . Nor did his magnanimity stop here . Many of his adherents believed I ought to have supported him ...
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That opened the ball , and , nothing loth , he answered with a story I can never forget ; a story which I believe has never been forgotten by any one who heard it : “ When I lived in Pittsburgh , gentlemen , " said the Doctor , “ where ...
That opened the ball , and , nothing loth , he answered with a story I can never forget ; a story which I believe has never been forgotten by any one who heard it : “ When I lived in Pittsburgh , gentlemen , " said the Doctor , “ where ...
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If I were inclined to forget my connection with them , or to deny that I sprang from them , this chamber would not be the place in which I could do either . While I hold a seat I have but to look at the beautiful capitals adorning the ...
If I were inclined to forget my connection with them , or to deny that I sprang from them , this chamber would not be the place in which I could do either . While I hold a seat I have but to look at the beautiful capitals adorning the ...
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| Title | Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 1 Anecdotes of Public Men, John Wien Forney Library of American civilization |
| Author | John Wien Forney |
| Publisher | Harper, 1873 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 10 Feb 2014 |
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