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"I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman."
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"You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters."
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"For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way."
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