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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
The second office in the government is honorable and easy the firs

The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery. – Thomas Jefferson

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In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. – Thomas Jefferson

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