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"“What! never been to a political meeting; an‘ you living in a city. Back to the hamlet for you, boy; you‘re lost. “You‘re not? You know where you live, and could find your way home in the dark? My, but you‘re cert‘nly the quick actor when it comes to thinking."
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I was shocked this morning when I saw in my newspaper a paragraph
announcing his sudden death.I do not say that the shock was very
disagreeable.One reads a newspaper for the sake of news.Had I never
met James Pethel, belike I should never have heard of him: and my
knowledge of his death, coincident with my knowledge that he had
existed, would have meant nothing at all to me.If you learn suddenly
that one of your friends is dead, you are wholly distressed.If the
death is that of a mere acquaintance whom you have recently seen, you
are disconcerted, pricked is your sense of mortality; but you do find
great solace in telling other people that you met "the poor fellow"
only the other day, and that he was "so full of life and spirits," and
that you remember he said--whatever you may remember of his sayings.
If the death is that of a mere acquaintance whom you have not seen for
years, you are touched so lightly as to find solace enough in even such
faded reminiscence as is yours to offer.Seven years have passed since
the day when last I saw James Pethel, and that day was the morrow of my
first meeting with him. ... Read more

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"Excerpt from the book..."

It is a pleasure to return from whence I came. You are among my oldest
friends in Washington--and this House is my oldest home. It was here, more
than 14 years ago, that I first took the oath of Federal office. It was
here, for 14 years, that I gained both knowledge and inspiration from
members of both parties in both Houses
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We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom. . .
symbolizing an end as well as a beginning. . .signifying renewal
as well as change for I have sworn before you and Almighty God
the same solemn oath our forbears prescribed nearly a century
and three-quarters ago.
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