Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be th…

Thomas Jefferson
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Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it is what I have steadfastly believed. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1853). The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private, p.187
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