...........to have had a few beers with Samuel Adams:
"By fretting at unfortunate events we double the evil."
"The censure of fools and knaves is applause."
Untroubled by perfectionism, he counseled friends not to overthink the details.
He excelled at friendship, which at its best he termed "thinking aloud together."
Though he bore the same name as his exemplary father, he invested little in bloodlines. When traced far enough back, one bumped up against the inevitable horse thief.
He thought the best of people until he could no longer. He shrugged off their opinions.
As affable in his manner as inflexible in his principals, he was at ease with everyone he met.
When he waxed rhapsodic it was about liberty and the rights of man.
Never in his life would he make a wise financial decision. Poverty was not so disagreeable a companion, he held, as the affluent seemed to believe.
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