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23 [i.e. 24] Saturday.
[from the Diary of John Adams]

23 [i.e. 24] Saturday.

A cloudy morn. All my Time seems to roll away unnoticed. I long to study sometimes, but have no opportunity. I long to be a master of Greek and Latin. I long to prosecute the mathematical and philosophical Sciences. I long to know a little of Ethicks and moral Philosophy. But I have no Books, no Time, no Friends. I must therefore be contented to live and die an ignorant, obscure fellow. A showery Day.

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    23 [i.e. 24] Saturday.
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    Adams, John
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    24 April 1756

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    “23 [i.e. 24] Saturday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-01-02-0002-0004-0024. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, vol. 1, 1755–1770, ed. L. H. Butterfield. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961, p. 22.]