Extract about Thomas Jefferson, by Francis Brooke
| [ca. 1849] |
He was a man of easy and ingratiating manners ... Mr. Jefferson never would discuss any proposition if you differed with him, for he said he thought discussion rather rivetted opinions than changed them.
Published in Francis T. Brooke, A Narrative of My Life; for My Family (1849), 87–8.
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