The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man. ✨ Thoma…

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The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1854). The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State, p.275
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