I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as a…

Thomas Jefferson
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I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet. ✨ B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait, p.394
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