Famous Quotes | A mind always employed is always...

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe for felicity. The idle are the only wretched. - Thomas Jefferson
Attribution: Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), U.S. president. Letter, May 21, 1787, to his daughter, Martha Jefferson. The Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson, p. 41, eds. E.M. Betts and J.A. Bear, Jr. (1966).

Categories: Happiness, Idleness, President

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