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Thomas Jefferson
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music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2010). The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787, p.266, Cosimo, Inc.
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music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2010). The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787, p.266, Cosimo, Inc.

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