Thomas Jefferson: “I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier.”

January 21, 1812 April 8, 2023

Thomas Jefferson said the following in a Letter to John Adams, dated January 21, 1812:

“I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier.”

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