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Thomas Jefferson Quotes: Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.
         

Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.


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