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While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost.
While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost.
Approximate author period: c. 1784 AD · early modern
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- Thomas Jefferson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1784 AD · early modern
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