Genius is sorrow's child. ✨ John Adams, Benjamin Waterhouse (1927). St…

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Genius is sorrow's child. ✨ John Adams, Benjamin Waterhouse (1927). Statesman and Friend: Correspondence of John Adams with Benjamin Waterhouse, 1784-1822
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