"I am constantly roving about, to see what I have never seen before
and shall never see again. In the great cities, I go to see what
travellers think alone worthy of being seen; but I make a job of
it, and generally gulp it all down in a day. On the other hand, I
am never satiated with rambling through the fields and farms,
examining the culture and cultivators, with a degree of curiosity
which makes some take me to be a fool, and others to be much wiser
than I am."
--Thomas Jefferson to the Marquis de Lafayette, Nice, April 11,
1787
"We have now need of something to make us laugh, for the topics of
the times are sad and eventful. The gay and thoughtless Paris is
now become a furnace of Politics. All the world is run Politically
mad. Men, women, children talk nothing else; and you know they talk
much, loud and warm."
--Jefferson to Anne Willing Bingham,
Paris, May 11, 1788
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