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I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815, p.167, Princeton University Press
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I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815, p.167, Princeton University Press

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