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395. APPROBATION OF THE DISCRIMINATING.—

With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learned to be perfectly
indifferent; but where I know a mind to
be ingenuous, and to need only truth to set it
to rights, I cannot be as passive.—
To Mrs. John Adams. Washington ed. iv, 560. Ford ed., viii, 311.
(M. 1804)