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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
Approximate author period: c. 1780 AD · early modern
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- John Adams
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- Approximate author period: c. 1780 AD · early modern
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