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Docno: DQA02d150

Author: JQA
Date: 1786-08-09
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

 
1. Royall Tyler.
 
2. “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).
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