Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Booth” in chapter 11 of Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches:
... finely in the newspapers are not commonly the ones that sounded the best when they were delivered.
Great men create great antagonisms.
The antagonism which Lincoln excited was concentrated in Booth 's pistol shot, and the Montagues and Capulets became reconciled over his bier; but the antagonism against Sumner still continues to smoke and smoulder like the embers of a dying conflagration.
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