Jefferson Wrote

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    I hope we shall give them a thorough drubbing this summer, and then change our tomahawk into a golden chain of friendship.
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see what a work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)