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In this 1809 letter dated two days before ending his Presidency, Thomas Jefferson said he felt like being released from prison, and that he should've been a scientist

This is from my letter to Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, March 2, 1809: Within a few days I retire to my family, my books, & farms & having gained the harbor myself. I shall look on my friends still buffeting the storm, with anxiety indeed, but not with envy. Never did prisoner, releas

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