I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad. …

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I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2010). The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787, p.181, Cosimo, Inc.
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