"In this country … men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire."
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Diary entry (15 April 1836), as quoted in Peter Yapp (ed.) The Travellers' Dictionary of Quotation: Who Said What, About Where? (1983), p. 862
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Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
Charles Francis Adams (18 August 1807 – 21 November 1886) was an American lawyer, politician, diplomat and writer; the son of President John Quincy Adams and Louisa Catherine Johnson and the grandson of President John Adams and Abigail Adams.
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