The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he wh…

Thomas Jefferson
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The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors. ✨ Letter to John Norvell, June 11, 1807.
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