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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 1091
AUTHOR: Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
QUOTATION: … the giver of life, who gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.
ATTRIBUTION: THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to James Monroe, May 20, 1782.—The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd, vol. 6, p. 186 (1952).
SUBJECTS: Life
 


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