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6975. PRIVATE LIFE, Contentment.—[continued].

As to the concerns of
my own country, I leave them willingly and
safely to those who will have a longer interest
in cherishing them. My books, my family,
my friends, and my farm, furnish more than
enough to occupy me the remainder of my
life, and of that tranquil occupation most
analogous to my physical and moral constitution.—
To M. Odit. Washington ed. iv, 123.
(M. Oct. 1795)