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There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.
John Quincy Adams
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John Quincy Adams
Age: 80 †
Born: 1767
Born: July 11
Died: 1848
Died: February 23
6Th U.S. President
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A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair.
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I want a warm and faithful friend, To cheer the adverse hour Who ne'er to flatter will descend, Nor bend the knee to power,- A friend to chide me when I'm wrong, My inmost soul to see And that my friendship prove as strong For him as his for me.
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The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.
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The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.
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Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.
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I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
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To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.
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Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.
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All that I am my mother made me.
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Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.
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