“To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.”
Sue Grafton (1940–2017) American writer
“This house will bear witness to his piety; this town, his birthplace, to his munificence; history to his patriotism; posterity to the depth and compass of his mind.”
Epitaph for John Adams (1829), inscribed on one of the portals of the United First Parish Church Unitarian (Church of the Presidents), Quincy
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