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“Whether the succeeding generation is to be more virtuous than their predecessors, I cannot say; but I am sure they will have more worldly wisdom, and enough, I hope, to know that honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
— Thomas Jefferson
3rd President of the United States
Letter to Nathaniel Macon (12 January 1819)
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