Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of dut…

Thomas Jefferson
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Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1977). The Portable Thomas Jefferson, p.429, Penguin
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