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, letter to Nathaniel Macon, 1819 January 12th
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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, letter to Nathaniel Macon, 1819 January 12th
HPPT!!
peony, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
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