Daniel Pratt (eccentric) - Quotations

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My Parents said to me one day about 10 years ago, you cannot be a Henry Clay or a Daniel Webster, for you have not had a college education — said I, I can be a Daniel Pratt, Jr., and that is all I want to be.

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