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“[Rutherford B. Hayes] was a patriotic citizen, a lover of the flag and of our free institutions, an industrious and conscientious civil officer, a soldier of dauntless courage, a loyal comrade and friend, a sympathetic and helpful neighbor, and the honored head of a happy Christian home. He has steadily grown in the public esteem, and the impartial historian will not fail to recognize the conscientiousness, the manliness, and the courage that so strongly characterized his whole public career.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)

“Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,
The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)

“Miss Otis regrets she’s unable to lunch today.”
—Cole Porter (1893–1964)