| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 37374 |
| QUOTATION: | A certain degree of miserey [sic] seems inseparable from a high degree of populousness. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | James Madison (17511836), U.S. president. Madison to Jefferson, June 19, 1786. W.T. Hutchinson et al., The Papers of James Madison, vol. 9, p. 76, Chicago and Charlottesville, Virginia (1962-1991). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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