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What does it mean?
This is a bibliographic entry describing Jefferson's account books, not a quote with meaning.
In plain terms
Reference to Jefferson's record of daily expenses.
What can you take from it?
Records track personal finance.

Where it applies

  • research
  • historical study

Putting it to work

  • track expenses
  • read primary sources

Questions to consider

  • Why keep records?

Another view

This is not a quote with philosophical content.

More from Thomas Jefferson

  1. Adams, Dickinson W., ed. Jefferson's Extracts from the Gospels (1983). All three of Jefferson's versions of the Gospels, with relevant correspondence about his…

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  2. Jefferson, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia (1787), London: Stockdale. This was Jefferson's only book.

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  3. Smith, James Morton, ed. The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, 1776-1826, 3 vols. (1995).

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