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Extract from Thomas Jefferson to William Dunbar

Washington Jan. 12. 1801.

I have no doubt but that cold is the source of more sufferance to all animal nature than hunger, thirst, sickness & all the other pains of life & of death itself put together.

PrC (DLC). Published in PTJ, 32:448–9.
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Author
Thomas Jefferson
Recipient
William Dunbar
Date Range
1801 - 1809
Date
January 12, 1801
Collection
Quotes by and about Thomas Jefferson
Repository
DLC
Quote Category
Nature and the Environment

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