and i'll come back triumphant-lee!

Is Anybody There? - William Daniels - 1776 (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

John Adams to Abigail Smith, 7 May 1764:

I promised you, Sometime agone, a Catalogue of your Faults, Imperfections, Defects, or whatever you please to call them. I feel at present, pretty much at Leisure, and in a very suitable Frame of Mind to perform my Promise. [...] In the first Place, then, give me leave to say, you have been extreamly negligent, in attending so little to Cards. You have very litle Inclination, to that noble and elegant Diversion, and whenever you have taken an Hand you have held it but aukwardly and played it, with a very uncourtly, and indifferent, Air. [..] In the Fourth Place you very often hang your Head like a Bulrush. You do not sit, erected as you ought, by which Means, it happens that you appear too short for a Beauty, and the Company looses the sweet smiles of that Countenance and the bright sparkles of those Eyes.—This Fault is the Effect and Consequence of another, still more inexcusable in a Lady. I mean an Habit of Reading, Writing and Thinking. But both the Cause and the Effect ought to be repented and amended as soon as possible. [...] A sixth Imperfection is that of Walking, with the Toes bending inward. This Imperfection is commonly called Parrot-toed, I think, I know not for what Reason.

Thomas Jefferson: I'm going home, too, to my wife.

John Adams: Move to adjourn!

Thomas Jefferson: Wait!

Benjamin Franklin: I second.

Thomas Jefferson: Mr. Hancock, I haven't seen her for six months.

John Hancock: Moved and seconded. Any objections?

Thomas Jefferson: I have objections! I have lots of objections!

John Hancock: So ruled! Congress stands adjourned!

Thomas Jefferson: John, I need to see my wife.

Benjamin Franklin: It's all right. Come along.

Thomas Jefferson: No. I'm going home tonight.

rak1954​ requested: cool, cool, considerate men