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Title: The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902
Subjects: Historic buildings -- United States United States -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ONE OF THE NATIONS HEROES—GENERAL WILLIAM T. SHERMAN.After the bust by Augustus St. Gaudens, modeled from life in 1888-89. 240 THE CENTURY BOOK OF FAMOUS AMERICANS girls I questioned than from the grown-ups. The salvation of the republic,after all, lies in the hands and hearts of its boys and girls. Xo\v, Marian, it s your turn, said her father. What impressed me most about these people ? she queried, referring toher well-worn list. Let me see- -I guess what Uncle Tom told us once,
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WASHINGTON AT VALLEY FORGE. that, after all, they were men. It seems as though we heard horrid, meanlittle things about every one of them ; but that s because people like to talk,I suppose ; and, after all, I could nt but see that the great and noble thingsthey did pushed the little things out of sight. Every man of them all wentup in the world from pretty small beginnings, and I suppose success startsmean things about people just as much as it starts fine things. It takes allsorts of people to make a world, and, for my part, I m going to forget thegossip and remember only the glory. That s the talk, my dear ! exclaimed Uncle Tom. I wish you couldput that spirit into certain of our historians who seem to think that truth TALKING IT OVER 241 consists in picking flaws. No one of us is perfect; we all have our failings.Forget the bad, remember the good. For it is the good in people that livesthe longest, and perhaps even the things we call failings in our great menwere but the steps by w

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