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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson
Age: 83 †
Born: 1743
Born: April 2
Died: 1826
Died: July 4
3Rd U.S. President
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Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote for representatives for that county to the legislature.
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Take painsto write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small and compact hand as well as a fair and legible one.
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When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.
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The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam [to a carriage on wheels] will make a great change in the situation of man.
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When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.
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An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected and sewn in hemp and be kept for a permanent hemp patch.
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Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.
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A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world.
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