A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and a…

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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. ✨ John Adams (1805). Discourses on Davila: A series of papers, on political history. Written in the year 1790, and then published in the Gazette of the United States, p.26
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