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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 728
AUTHOR: Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
QUOTATION: Were we directed from Washington when to sow, & when to reap, we should soon want bread.
ATTRIBUTION: THOMAS JEFFERSON, “Autobiography,” The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Paul L. Ford, vol. 1, p. 113 (1892).
SUBJECTS: Government