Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws…

Thomas Jefferson
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Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph
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