Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a q…

Thomas Jefferson
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Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother & an instructor. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2016). The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 12: 1 September 1817 to 21 April 1818, p.533, Princeton University Press
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