It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been able to decipher it. I don’t think that I mastered anything beyond the date (which I knew) and the signature (which I guessed at).
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) American writer, poet, critic, editor
Letter to Professor E.S. Morse (c. 1889)
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The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting.
John Adams (1735–1826) American lawyer, Founder, statesman; US President (1797–1801)
(Attributed)
Widely attributed to Adams, but not found in his writings, not does it really sound like him. If authentic, the phrasing has probably been modernized from its original form.
