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Chauncey Depew

(1834—1928)

U.S. politician, at an 1881 New England Society meeting in New York

It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.

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