My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they …

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My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph, p.239
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My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1829). Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph, p.239

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