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    We have exchanged the Washingtonian dignity for the Jeffersonian simplicity, which in due time came to be only another name for the Jacksonian vulgarity.
    —Henry Codman Potter (1835–1908)

    We have exchanged the Washingtonian dignity for the Jeffersonian simplicity, which in due time came to be only another name for the Jacksonian vulgarity.
    —Henry Codman Potter (1835–1908)

    I think if she lived in
    A little shoe-house—
    That little old woman was
    Surely a mouse!
    —Beatrix Potter (1866–1943)