Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Leiper

Monticello Jan. 1. 1814.

I cannot act as if all men were unfaithful because some are so; nor believe that all will betray me, because some do. I had rather be the victim of occasional infidelities, than relinquish my general confidence in the honesty of man.

RC (DLC). PoC (DLC).
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