Extract from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams

Monticello July 5. 14.

but our machines have now been running for 70. or 80. years, and we must expect that, worn as they are, here a pivot, there a wheel, now a pinion, next a spring, will be giving way: and however we may tinker them up for awhile, all will at length surcease motion.

RC (MHi: Adams Papers). PoC (DLC). Published in PTRJS, 7:451.
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