Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1…

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Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1854). The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private, p.221
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Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1854). The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private, p.221

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