Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations th…

Thomas Jefferson
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Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. ✨ Letter to John Adams, 1 August (1816)
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Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. ✨ Letter to John Adams, 1 August (1816)

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