State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decid…

Thomas Jefferson
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State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1853). The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin, p.238
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