Power is not alluring to pure minds. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoir…

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Power is not alluring to pure minds. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph
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