Since chess was such a painful test of intellect, it affected his emotions too much to be sport.

Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: "It would kill him if he relaxed.

The young John Quincy Adams begins it lifelong habit of keeping a journal with reluctance that he might one day have to read it. He hopes, though, that the flaws in his earlier entries will be balanced by the progress he is able to see.

He had to pause for his usual misgivings.

Foolish defiance was his lifelong response to being ill.

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