But though an old man, I am but a young gardener. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, …

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But though an old man, I am but a young gardener. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). Jefferson: Political Writings, p.34, Cambridge University Press
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