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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chic

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. – John Adams

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Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination – everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell. – John Adams

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I read my eyes out and cant read half enough. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read. – John Adams

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