I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune d…

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I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, p.69
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I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, p.69

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