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“It was acknowledged everywhere that he had played his part in a noble and even in princely manner, that he had used with a becoming grace the rich things that had been given him….. And yet, perhaps, no man who had lived during the period, or any portion of the period, had done less, or had devoted himself entirely to the consumption of good things without the slightest idea of producing anything in return!”