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Circumstances sometimes require, that rights the most unquestionable should be advanced with delicacy. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson, p.117
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Circumstances sometimes require, that rights the most unquestionable should be advanced with delicacy. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson, p.117

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