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Monday, February 7, 2011

Israel Potter - Opening

TO
His Highness
THE
Bunker-Hill Monument

BIOGRAPHY, in its purer form, confined to the ended lives of the true and brave, may be held the fairest meed of human virtue -- one given and received in entire disinterestedness -- since neither can the biographer hope for acknowledgment from the subject, nor the subject at all avail himself of the biographical distinction conferred.



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