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An Earthly Immortality Belongs To A Great And Good Character. History Embalms It; It Lives In Its Moral Influence, In Its Authority, In Its Example, In The Memory Of The Words And Deeds In Which It Was Manifested; And As Every Age Adds To The Illustrations Of Its Efficacy, It May Chance To Be The Best Understood By A Remote Posterity.

-Edward Everett

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An Earthly Immortality Belongs To A Great

Edward Everett

An Earthly Immortality Belongs To A Great And Good Character. History Embalms It; It Lives In Its Moral Influence, In Its Authority, In Its Example, In The Memory Of The Words And Deeds In Which It Was Manifested; And As Every Age Adds To The Illustrations Of Its Efficacy, It May Chance To Be The Best Understood By A Remote Posterity.

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