John Quincy Adams

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is a man of reserved, cold, austere, and forbidding manners: my political adversaries say, a gloomy misanthropist, and my personal enemies, an unsocial savage.

is a man whose disposition is as perverse and mulish as that of his father.

(of John Quincy Adams) His disposition is as perverse and mulish as that of his father.

is said to be a disgusting man to do business with: coarse, dirty, clownish in his address and stiff and abstracted in his opinions, which are drawn from books exclusively.

(of John Quincy Adams) It is said he is a disgusting man to do business. Coarse, dirty, clownish in his address and stiff and abstracted in his opinions, which are drawn from books exclusively.

is the most doggedly and systematically repulsive of all the men to waste civilities upon.

Of all the men whom it was ever my lot to accost and to waste civilities upon, [he] was the most doggedly and systematically repulsive.

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