I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opini…

Thomas Jefferson
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I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Charles T. Cullen (1961). The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
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