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Politics Quote by Davidson Butler

““There are, Jefferson said, two classes of “disputants” that are especially common. The “first is . . . young students . . . the other consists of the ill-tempered & rude men in society, who have taken up a passion for politics.” From both, Jefferson urged, “keep aloof, as you would from the infected subjects of yellow fever or pestilence. Consider yourself, when with them, as among the patients of Bedlam, needing medical more than moral counsel.””

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