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He was succeeded in the following December
by George M. Brooks, who had been my friend from early boyhood.
He would in my judgment have had an eminent political career
if he had remained in public life, but for his great modesty.
He never seemed to value highly anything he accomplished himself.
But his sympathy and praise were always called out by anything
done by a friend. I think Brooks took much more pleasure
in anything well done or well said by one of his colleagues
than in anything of his own. He was a man of an exceedingly
sweet, gracious and affectionate nature, loving as a child,
yet as men of such natures often are, thoroughly manly. He
was incapable of any meanness or conscious wrong-doing. He
had a very pleasant and ready wit. The people of Middlesex
County, especially of Concord, were very fond of him, and
would have kept him in public life as long as he desired.
But his heath was not good in Washington. The climate of
the place and the bad air of the House were unfavorable. He
did not fancy very much the strife and noise of that turbulent
assembly.


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