Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of…

Thomas Jefferson
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Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2011). The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814, p.654, Princeton University Press
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