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3103. FORTUNE, Public Service and.—

When I first entered on the stage of public life (now twenty-four years ago), I came to a
resolution never to engage while in public
office in any kind of enterprise for the improvement
of my fortune, [and] I have never
departed from it in a single instance.—
To——. Washington ed. iii, 527.
(Pa., 1793)