Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than …

Thomas Jefferson
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Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. ✨ Declaration of Independence (1776)
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