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Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States ed. Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 5 vols. (1922-1926), Hayes to ? (November 10, 1890)Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States ed. Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 5 vols. (1922-1926), Diary (April 24, 1853)Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States ed. Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 5 vols. (1922-1926), Hayes to William Henry Smith (October 26, 1881)Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States ed. Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 5 vols. (1922-1926), Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes (June 17, 1866)Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States ed. Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 5 vols. (1922-1926), Hayes to Lucy Webb (June 22, 1851)

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I have a talent for silence and brevity. I can keep silent when it seems best to do so, and when I speak I can, and do usually, quit when I am done. This talent, or these two talents, I have cultivated. Silence and concise, brief speaking have got me some laurels, and, I suspect, lost me some. No odds. Do what is natural to you, and you are sure to get all the recognition you are entitled to.

Rutherford Birchard Hayes

Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893), U.S. president. Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States, vol. III, p. 220, ed. Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 5 vols. (1922-1926), Diary (November 20, 1872).

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