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Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Lyman Henry Butterfield, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti, Barbara Oberg (1950). The papers of Thomas Jefferson
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