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Men in boys’ coats

Jason Kottke highlighted this timely and timeless Thomas Jefferson quote on being too beholden on the past:

We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.

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