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judicial sense with which he explained and justified the labor…unions as
the sole present help of the weak against the strong。
Next I saw him dead； lying in his coffin amid those flowers with which we
garland our despair in that pitiless hour。 After the voice of his old
friend Twichell had been lifted in the prayer which it wailed through in
broken…hearted supplication； I looked a moment at the face I knew so
well； and it was patient with the patience I had so often seen in it：
something of puzzle； a great silent dignity； an assent to what must be
from the depths of a nature whose tragical seriousness broke in the
laughter which the unwise took for the whole of him。 Emerson；
Longfellow； Lowell； HolmesI knew them all and all the rest of our
sages； poets； seers； critics； humorists； they were like one another and
like other literary men； but Clemens was sole； incomparable； the Lincoln
of our literature。
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