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I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. — Thomas Jefferson · 1813
There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty. — Warren G. Harding · 1921