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... career - the lesson of self - reliance , of sincere friendship , of personal independence and integrity , of toleration and forbearance . It is a maxim , that when men begin to write : 160000 their recollections they are getting old ...
... career - the lesson of self - reliance , of sincere friendship , of personal independence and integrity , of toleration and forbearance . It is a maxim , that when men begin to write : 160000 their recollections they are getting old ...
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... career at peace with all the world . It is said that he is now receiving more money for legal services than any man in his profession . Of course his labors are heavy , but he lightens then by his calm and cheer- ful philosophy , his ...
... career at peace with all the world . It is said that he is now receiving more money for legal services than any man in his profession . Of course his labors are heavy , but he lightens then by his calm and cheer- ful philosophy , his ...
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... career was a succession of strange events . Twenty - five years of it were spent in New York in the rudest scenes , and more than ten among the turbulent men who then , as now , dominated over that great city . Of these he became the ...
... career was a succession of strange events . Twenty - five years of it were spent in New York in the rudest scenes , and more than ten among the turbulent men who then , as now , dominated over that great city . Of these he became the ...
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... career by finding his friends stripped of the power they had fairly won . The disappointment was grievous , but it called out all his bet- ter nature . He devoted himself to his studies and his duties with renewed assiduity . He always ...
... career by finding his friends stripped of the power they had fairly won . The disappointment was grievous , but it called out all his bet- ter nature . He devoted himself to his studies and his duties with renewed assiduity . He always ...
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... career . He inherited hostility to slavery . When he came to Washing- ton in 1851 as a Representative from the old Henry Clay Lex- ington district , in Kentucky , he was in no sense an extremist . At that early day , when he had just ...
... career . He inherited hostility to slavery . When he came to Washing- ton in 1851 as a Representative from the old Henry Clay Lex- ington district , in Kentucky , he was in no sense an extremist . At that early day , when he had just ...
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