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Eternal Vigilance « Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello

2012-04-09 ~ Mark

@jennylish: “The price of accurately sourcing quotations is also eternal vigilance! (via)

Thomas Jefferson didn’t say this.  But strangely enough, I’ve discovered a whole string of quite famous people who did say this, which makes it seem even odder that the attribution got pinned on a relatively obscure figure like [Wendell] Phillips.

Eternal Vigilance « Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello

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