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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on them [offices], a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Letter to Tench Coxe, 1799
If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignations, none.
Usually quoted: 'Few die and none resign.'
Usually quoted: 'Few die and none resign.'
Letter to Elias Shipman & others of New Haven, July 12, 1801
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