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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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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I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.
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