Diary of John Quincy Adams, volume 2

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10th.

9th. JQA

1786-08-09

9th. Adams, John Quincy
9th.

All the forenoon down in the Library; reading and writing. Pass'd the afternoon at my uncle Adams's. There was some conversation concerning Mr. T——r.1 He has not many friends I believe in Braintree. I believe him at best a very imprudent man, or as Horace says of a character something like him

Nil fuit unquam, sic impar sibi.2
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Royall Tyler.

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“Never was a creature so inconsistent,” Horace, Satires, Bk. I, Satire 3, lines 18–19 ( Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica , transl. Fairclough, p. 32–33).