If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of e…

Thomas Jefferson
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If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea... No one possesses the less, because every other possess the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. ✨ Letter to Isaac McPherson, 13 Aug. 1813
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