Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicaner…

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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. ✨ John Adams (2016). John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826, p.814, Library of America
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