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Busy replying to letters from divers office-seekers. They come by the dozens.
Rutherford B. Hayes
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Rutherford B. Hayes
Age: 70 †
Born: 1822
Born: October 4
Died: 1893
Died: January 17
19Th U.S. President
Lawyer
Military Officer
Politician
Statesperson
Delaware
Ohio
Rutherford Birchard Hayes
Rutherford Hayes
R. B. Hayes
President Hayes
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Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.
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My policy is trust peace and to put aside the bayonet.
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Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.
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Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn't break and that the enemy's did.
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I am succeeding very well so far with my legging, but it is a very mean business for a man that has been well brought up to engage in. It is the only way to get a bill from Cincinnati through, so it must be done.
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