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I have read their platform, and though I think there are some unsound places in it, I can stand upon it pretty well. But I see nothing in it both new and valuable. "What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable."

I have read their platform, and though I think there are some unsound places in it, I can stand upon it pretty well. But I see nothing in it both new and valuable. "What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable."

Approximate author period: c. 1817 AD · industrial

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Daniel Webster
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Approximate author period: c. 1817 AD · industrial
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Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)

Speech at Marshfield, Sept. 1, 1848. P. 433.

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