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		prossercj on Feb 5, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stop Reading News (2013) This quote from Thomas Jefferson seems relevant: "I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus & Thucydides, for Newton & Euclid; & I find myself much the happier." [0] [0] http://tjrs.monticello.org/letter/280

AndrewKemendo on Feb 5, 2019 [–]

Jefferson was 80 when he wrote that, so the context is a little different than what people are discussing here.

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