It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not c…

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It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2004). Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness, p.17, Modern Library
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