“I am very much flattered by your commendation of my last Letter, for I write only for Fame, and without any view to pecuniary Emolument.”
letter to Cassandra
January 14, 1796 [2]
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Ah, the art of letter writing. No one I know ueses or writes “emolument” any more. Great quote for the day.