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Where thought is free in its range, we need never fear to hazard what is good in itself. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, p.604
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Where thought is free in its range, we need never fear to hazard what is good in itself. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, p.604

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