He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

— Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Isaac McPherson (1813)

Source: http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12.html

From a letter to Isaac McPherson, 13 August 1813.

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