Sunday, May 22, 2016

This assemblage of sloth, sleep, and littleness

In looking up one John Adams' quotation, I find another that increased my admiration for him yet further. From his diaries:
By my physical constitution I am but an ordinary man … Yet some great events, some cutting expressions, some mean hypocracies, have at times thrown this assemblage of sloth, sleep, and littleness into rage like a lion.

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