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Excerpt from Report of the Committee on Legal Biography to the President and Members of the Pennsylvania Bar Association
But it was as a wit that he was most widely known and will be most keenly missed. His wit was all his own, in form and man ner and occasion. It ?ashed out spontaneously on the spur of the moment, and made him the life of any company in which he might chance to be. And it had this rare quality, that it was never ill tempere'd nor malicious. To him might well be applied his own pleasant saying about the late David W. Sellers, that he always dipped his brush in rose color. The hardest hit from either was never a blow, but rather a tap from an open and friendly hand. Alike in this, though different in style and manner, two such charm ing companions have not been known in our day, and will not be again.
Guillou was a man of versatile tastes and accomplishments. He always spoke of himself as a Frenchman, and always showed the vivacity of his Gallic blood. He had a fine artistic sense, which he showed in his choice collection of engravings, especially those of Napoleon, for whom he had the national admiration. During the existence of the Amateur Drawing Room, popularly known as the Little Theatre, in Seventeenth Street, he was one of the most active and useful members of the Association, as he expressed it himself, actor, scene painter, carpenter, machinist and bell-boy, ready at all times to do anything for the cause. He was a skilled mechanic, and one of his greatest pleasures was in working upon his lathe.
Guillou possessed a charming personality and a kindly genial disposition, which endeared him to all who knew him. His courtesy Sprang from the heart, and his manners had the stamp of simplicity and sincerity. The depth and tenderness of his feelings were known to his friends, and friends he made wherever he went. He wasexceedingly fond of children, and they gathered around him with the sympathetic intuition of childhood.
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