Quotes by John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

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“You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.”

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“You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.”
— John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
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“...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized learning. Read over again all the accounts we have of Hind...”
— John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
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“I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy...”
— John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
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“You go on, I presume, with your latin Exercises: and I wish to hear of your beginning upon Sallust who is one of the most polished and perfect of the Roman Historians, every Period of whom, and I h...”
— John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
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