• To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.

    John Quincy Adams: To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.
    John Quincy Adams (1951). “Diary, 1794-1845: American Diplomacy and Political, Social, and Intellectual Life from Washington to Polk”

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