The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their han…

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The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have any turn for dissipation, threaten to make them here, as in Europe, the sinks of voluntary misery. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1861). Correspondence, p.514
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