| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 30923 |
| QUOTATION: | If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This is the favorite passion of my soul, and fortune has cast my lot in a country where it is in a state of deplorable barbarism. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), U.S. president. Letter, June 8, 1778, to Giovanni Fabbroni. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 2, p. 196, ed. Julian P. Boyd, et al. (1950). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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