Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he …

Thomas Jefferson
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Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.
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Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.

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