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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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1679 |
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AUTHOR:
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Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) |
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QUOTATION:
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I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I have been the instrument of doing the following things; but they would have been done by others; some of them, perhaps, a little better. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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THOMAS JEFFERSON, “Services of Jefferson” (1800?), The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Paul L. Ford, vol. 7, p. 475 (1896). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Self-examination |
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