It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many amon…

Thomas Jefferson
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It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States, p.112
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