Jefferson Hills

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“[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; which would be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“We near heaven’s hills with this,
God’s asphodels,
O stay,
stay close,
bend down.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)