Edward Dorr Griffin (1770–1837) American academic administrator
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 99.
“I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.”
Letter to Robert Morris (13 August 1782)
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