Nothing is so disgusting to our sex as want of cleanliness and delicac…

Thomas Jefferson
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Nothing is so disgusting to our sex as want of cleanliness and delicacy in yours. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Lyman Henry Butterfield, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti (1952). 21 May 1781 to 1 March 1784
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