Nominated for quote of the week, which I encountered while reading Matt Ridley’s The Rational Optimist:
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
in a letter to Isaac McPherson
Nominated for quote of the week, which I encountered while reading Matt Ridley’s The Rational Optimist:
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743—July 4, 1826), American Founding Father and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776)
in a letter to Isaac McPherson
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