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I was born and grew up in the midst of men and women who had known my grandfather as a public and a private man, and seen him in all the various relations Of life. In my seventeenth year I became the inmate of the house of one of his dearest friends, General Lafayette. Among all who had known him I found but one Opinion both of his greatness and his goodness, of the vigor and depth of his mind, of the warmth and purity of his heart.
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