Experience teaches us that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the most simple and obvious improvements, in the most ordinary occupations, are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and by slow gradations.
First US President
Letter to Arthur Young, reflecting on human nature and progress.
1788
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