"I was strong enough not to let them get the best of me, but I'm definitely one who has taken what people say to heart and let it eat away at me."

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To seek out the best [persons to serve in the government] though the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with ther purest motives, is something incorrect....No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

— Thomas Jefferson