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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2013). The Jefferson Bible [annotated]: Original Old English Version and Modern Updates to The Jefferson Bible, p.139, BookBaby
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An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, p.185
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The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2013). The Jefferson Bible [annotated]: Original Old English Version and Modern Updates to The Jefferson Bible, p.139, BookBaby

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