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pregnated with the sentiments which you in- 

 spired in me. And you, my dear father, whose 

 life was as hard as your own hard craft, it is you 

 who taught me what can be done by patience 

 and long effort. It is you to whom I owe tena- 

 cious persistence in the daily task. Not only 

 did you have those qualities of perseverance 

 which result in useful lives, but you also had 

 admiration for great men and great deeds. To 

 aim higher and higher, to learn more and more, 

 to seek constantly to rise, such were the things 

 you taught me. I can still see you, at the close 

 of your laborious day, reading in the evening 

 the account of some battle from one of the vol- 

 umes of contemporaneous history which re- 

 called to your mind the glorious epoch of which 

 you had been witness. While teaching me to 

 read, you also took pains to teach me the great- 

 ness of France. 



"My blessings on you both, my dear parents, 

 for all that you have been, and let me pass on 

 to you the homage that has today been paid to 

 this house. 



