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Never spend your money before you have earned 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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The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain.
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An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
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Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
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If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.
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The dead should not rule the living
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Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction.
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But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State.
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Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.
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There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue.
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[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it's power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of theirvirtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!
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Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus.
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I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.
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Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short-lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree.
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never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased
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Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. ...I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.
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Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace
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