What is it men cannot be made to believe! ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1853). T…

Thomas Jefferson
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What is it men cannot be made to believe! ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1853). The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State, p.541
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