I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man. ✨ Alexande…

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I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man. ✨ Alexander Hamilton (1831). The Federalist on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, with an Appendix Containing the Letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793, p.435
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