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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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1246 |
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AUTHOR:
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Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) |
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QUOTATION:
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But let me beseech you, Sir, not to let this letter get into a newspaper. Tranquillity, at my age, is the supreme good of life. I think it a duty, and it is my earnest wish, to take no further part in public affairs…. The abuse of confidence by publishing my letters has cost me more than all other pains. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to Charles Hammond, August 18, 1821.—The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Andrew A. Lipscomb, vol. 15, p. 331 (1903). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Newspapers |
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