Thomas Jefferson expressed a similar sentiment late in life in a letter to John Adams. Jefferson wrote the letter when the “Founding frenemies” were repairing their relationship following a long estrangement, and after Jefferson retired from politics.1 “I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid,” Jefferson wrote, “and I find myself much the happier.”
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