“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
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“I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in protestant countries the defections from the Platonic Christianity of the priests is to Deism, in catholic countries they are to Atheism. Diderot, D'Alembert, D’Holbach, Condorcet, are known to have been among the most virtuous of men. Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.
[Letter to Thomas Law, 13 June 1814]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
[Letter to Thomas Law, 13 June 1814]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
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