"Let the cymbals of popularity tinkle still. Let the butterflies of fame glitter with their wings. I shall envy neither their music nor their colors."
— Fame

January 1, 1970

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John Adams, Letter from Philadelphia, 8 July 1777 to Abigail Adams, quoted in Familiar letters of John Adams and his wife Abigail Adams, during the revolution, 1876