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Clara Barton deserves first place in the living memory of the world today, and of generations to come.
Jacksonville (Florida) Times-Union.
She bore herself with a poise that lost for her no friends.
Utica (N. Y.) Observer.
She had a faculty for seeing what needed to be done, and how to do it. New York Examiner.
She accomplished what crowned heads failed in.
Unity, Chicago.
Things came to me as if ordered by a world-controlling power.
Clara Barton.
Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
Athenæus.
O God! that bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap.
Hood.
The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy;
And ’tis the crown of justice, and the glory,
Where it may kill with right and save with pity.
J. Fletcher.
Tact is born with some people.
William Makepeace Thayer.
Tact is not a single faculty, but a combination of faculties.
W. M. Thayer.
What men call “shrewdness” and “Common Sense” usually signify no more than tact. W. M. Thayer.