Friday, October 30, 2009

'A Pen is an Excellent Instrument'

From Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac:

Today is the birthday of the second president of the United States, John Adams, born in Braintree, Massachusetts (now part of Quincy, Massachusetts) (1735), who said, "A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition."

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