I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and …

Thomas Jefferson
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I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is less wealth there, there is more freedom, more ease, and less misery. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoirs Corespondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson Late, President of the United States: Now First Published the Original Manuscripts, p.312
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