Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we shou…

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Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1853). The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private, p.82
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Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1853). The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private, p.82

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