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“The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.”
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- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b9c1c4901c4d93e267d9dbf282ac1379d53142bd22e472e1ed13187c38d360e2
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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