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  • When John Quincy Adams in the Netherlands was placed with elementary students and belittled because he did not speak Dutch, either the author or John Adams accuses school authorities of "littleness of soul".

  • I carry too much of the week into the Sabbath , and too little of the Sabbath into the week. John Quincy Adams

  • Ambition distorts even memory itself. John Quincy Adams

  • Abigail Adams is willing to risk her son's exposure to danger in Europe so that he can be at his fathers side, at an age where he can most benefit from his father's example and precepts.

  • Rather than pound or a national mind that he believed had been closed by his critics, John Quincy Adams decided to seek a place in the is the esteem of future generations.

  • The world shall retire from me before I shall retire from the world. John Quincy Adams

  • The life-changing encounters that John Quincy Adams made as an adolescent on his own in Stockholm began with a friendship he struck up at a bookstore.

  • Amusement and annoyance are, perhaps, both forms of denial.

  • John Quincy Adams strove to escape commonplace thoughts.

  • The aging Adams delightedly describes being surrounded by books on so many different subjects that interested him as "baits on fishhooks".

  • The author points out that, with life in provincial Washington difficult for those not of independent means, Adams and his wife undervalued the social connections that others found vital. They often made an impression as distant and prideful.

  • John Quincy Adams resolved to the discipline of rejecting argument for argument's sake would he sees that a fellow cabinet member is trying to draw him in to debating proposals the president will already reject.

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