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2846. EXTRAVAGANCE, Evil of.—

I consider the extravagance which has seized
[my countrymen] as a more baneful evil than
toryism was during the war. It is the more
so, as the example is set by the best and
most amiable characters among us.—
To John Page. Washington ed. i, 550. Ford ed., iv, 214.
(P. 1786)