Extract from Thomas Jefferson to William Short
| Monticello Oct. 31. 19. |
my business is to beguile the wearisomness of declining life, as I endeavor to do, by the delights of classical reading and of Mathematical truths, and by the consolations of a sound philosophy, equally indifferent to hope & fear.
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