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Henry Clay

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Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
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Reported in The Clay Code, or Text-Book of Eloquence, a Collection of Axioms, Apothegms, Sentiments … Gathered from the Public Speeches of Henry Clay, ed. G. Vandenhoff (1844), p. 93.

 
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