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Favorite quotes so far:

"Damn John Jay, Damn everyone that won't damn John Jay.  Damn everyone that won't put up lights in the windows and sit up all night damning John Jay."

"The style of dress...is really an outrage upon all decency...The arm naked almost to the shoulder"

A mean-spirited toast to Hamilton when he was sick:  "A speedy immortality to Hamilton."

"Standing Army"

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