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Thomas Jefferson on Idleness

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson to his daughter, Martha Jackson, May 5, 1787
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