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“I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere; and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue and freedom, would be my choice.”

~ Thomas Jefferson

Source: letter to Benjamin Rush, 1800. ME 10:173

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