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Your obedient and humble servant

I use the valediction "Your obedient and humble servant" in my letters, but nowadays people shorten it to "Yours," as in "Truly yours." The "s" at the end of "your" is abbreviated from "servant."

Thomas JeffersonOctober 4, 2026
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“Mine, after all, may be an Utopian dream; but being innocent, I have thought I might indulge in it till I go to the land of dreams, and sleep there with the dreamers of all past and future times.”

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