Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of vi…

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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts, p.43, Rowman & Littlefield
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