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6058. OFFICE, Good behavior.—

In the
office to which I have been called [Secretaryship
of State] all was full, and I could
not in any case think it just to turn out those
in possession who have behaved well, merely
to put others in.—
To Francis Willis. Ford ed., v, 157.
(N.Y., 1790)