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I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex Software, 1994.
-- Edward Everett, (Apr 11 1794-1865), US statesman, orator; He is remembered ironically for delivering the main speech preceding President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 1863; pres. Harvard U., 1846-49.

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