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QUOTATION:We have exchanged the Washingtonian dignity for the Jeffersonian simplicity, which in due time came to be only another name for the Jacksonian vulgarity.
ATTRIBUTION:Henry Codman Potter (1835–1908), U.S. ecclesiastic. Speech, April 30, 1889, on the centennial of Washington, D.C..
 
 
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