One insult pocketed soon produces another. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1854). …

Thomas Jefferson
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One insult pocketed soon produces another. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1854). The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State, p.510
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