NUMBER: 30795
QUOTATION: I write to you out of turn, and believe I must adopt the rule of only writing when I am written to, in hopes that may provoke more frequent letters.
ATTRIBUTION: Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), U.S. president. Letter, February 2, 1791, to his daughter, Martha Jefferson Randolph. The Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson, p. 71, eds. E.M. Betts and J.A. Bear, Jr. (1966).
BIOGRAPHY: Columbia Encyclopedia.
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