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Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, p.349
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Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, p.349

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