The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. ✨ Tho…

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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1853). The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private, p.141
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1853). The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private, p.141

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