Quote#Sadness
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get…
Quote byRutherford B. Hayes · 1822–1893
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter "to a leading editor" (10 April 1875), as quoted in The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes (1876) edited by James Quay Howard, ch. X, p. 144.
English (original)
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
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