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W HEREVER he went he held men 
spellbound. His name was known, 
his thoughts discussed on two continents. 
Yet he was only the frail son of a New 
Hampshire frontiersman. It cost many a 
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no man can progress. But there was some¬ 
thing else. He read and knew good books. 
Not all sorts of books; not merely mis¬ 
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“so few that to read them once or twice 
was nothing,” he said, “we thought they 
were all to be got by heart.” 
But those few' great books, which have 
lived through the centuries, Daniel 
Webster knew. And they were the foun¬ 
dation of all that came to him afterwards. 
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