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Edward Everett Quotes: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.
         

I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.


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