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As Adams grew sourer, his friends avoided him. "When I happened to fall in with him on the street," wrote Oliver Wendell Holmes, "he could be delightful, but when I called at his house and he was posing as the old cardinal, he would turn everything to dust and ashes."
In 1918 Adams died quietly in his bed, in the words of a friend, "kindly, courteous and sarcastic to the last."
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