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1 " The truth of Voltaire’s observation offers itself perpetually,” he told Bellini, that every man in Europe “must be either the hammer or the anvil. "
― Annette Gordon-Reed , Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
2 " Adams and Jefferson exchanged a series of letters comparing the virtues of the French character to the dour and gloomy English: the French “have as much happiness in one year as an Englishman in ten, "