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Thomas Jefferson

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I have ever deemed it more honorable and profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
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As quoted in The Life and Writings of Thomas Jefferson : Including All of His Important Utterances on Public Questions (1900) by Samuel E. Forman, p. 429.

 
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