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“Amusement and annoyance are, perhaps, both forms of denial.”
“Most ardent reformers are accompanied by but equal portion of dullness . John Quincy Adams”
“Since chess was such a painful test of intellect, it affected his emotions too much to be sport.”
“Foolish defiance was his lifelong response to being ill.”
“He must become an apprentice to ordinary life.”
“Only an Adams could convert naïveté into bravado.”
“The two grappled in the quiet of old-fashioned personal diplomacy.”
“The world shall retire from me before I shall retire from the world. John Quincy Adams”