Friday, January 13, 2023
A Gloomy Misanthropist
John Quincy Adams, Diary (June 4, 1819):
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I am a man of reserved, cold, austere, and forbidding manners; my political adversaries say a gloomy misanthropist, and my personal enemies, an unsocial savage. With a knowledge of the actual defect in my character, I have not the pliability to reform it.
