Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of s…

Thomas Jefferson
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Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). Jefferson: Political Writings, p.281, Cambridge University Press
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Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). Jefferson: Political Writings, p.281, Cambridge University Press

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