“In this country … men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.”

— Charles Francis Adams

Diary entry (15 April 1836), as quoted in The Travellers' Dictionary of Quotation : Who Said What, About Where? (1983) by Peter Yapp, p. 862.

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American historical editor, politician and diplomat (1807-1… 1807–1886

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