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1191. CHARACTER, Public Service and.—

There is sometimes an eminence of
character on which society have such peculiar
claims as to control the predilections of the
individual for a particular walk of happiness,
and restrain him to that alone arising from
the present and future benedictions of mankind.—
To President Washington. Washington ed. iii, 364. Ford ed., vi, 5.
(Pa., 1792)