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2236. DISINTERESTEDNESS, Losses through.—

I retired much poorer than when I
entered the public service. [147]
To Edward Rutledge. Washington ed. iv, 151. Ford ed., vii, 93.
(M. 1796)

 
[147]

“Few persons,” says Parton in his Life of Jefferson
(p. 147) “have ever performed public duty at such
a sacrifice of personal feeling and private interest as
did Thomas Jefferson.”—Editor.