"With respect to modern languages, French, as I have before observed, is indispensible [sic]. Next to this the Spanish is most important to an American. Our connection with Spain is already important and will become daily more so. Besides this the antient part of American history is written chiefly in Spanish."
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Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Thomas Mann Randolph (6 July 1787).
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