I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

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  If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

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• Charles Goodyear:

  I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits.

• Charles Goodyear:

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