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Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Angelica Schuyler Church

Germantown Nov. 27. 1793.

I know no country where ... public esteem is so attached to worth, regardless of wealth.

PrC (DLC). Published in PTJ, 27:449–50.
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Author
Thomas Jefferson
Recipient
Angelica Schuyler Church
Date Range
1791 - 1800
Date
November 27, 1793
Collection
Quotes by and about Thomas Jefferson
Repository
Peter B. Olney, Old Saybrook, Connecticut, 1950
DLC
Quote Category
America

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