We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which …

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We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin, p.333
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