Diary of John Quincy Adams, volume 1
1780-08-23
Pappa went out in the morning and came home and dined at home. Our Master comes every morning at six and every noon. Nothing very remarkable this day.
Reading a Volume entitled the World I found this fable.1
A fable about wisdom and folly, copied on the following half-page of the Diary, appeared in The
World No. 120, 17 April 1755. The edition that JQA used is not
known.