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Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Boies Penrose		Wednesday Jun 17, 2026
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About Bishop Henry C. Potter

	Bishop Henry C. Potter
	(1835- ) Address at the Washington Centennial Service in St. Paul's Chapel, NY, April 30, 1889.

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We have exchanged the Washingtonian dignity for the Jeffersonian simplicity, which was in truth only another name for the Jacksonian vulgarity.

If there be no nobility of descent, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of ascent,a character in them that bear rule so fine and high and pure that as men come within the circle of its influence they involuntarily pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the royalty of virtue.

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