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The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
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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In our Richmond there is much fanaticism, but chiefly among the women. They have their night meetings and prayer parties, where, attended by their priests, and sometimes by a hen-pecked husband, they pour forth the effusions of their love to Jesus, in terms as amatory and carnal, as their modesty would permit them to use a mere earthly lover.
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My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
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Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object.
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While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.
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I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
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I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally, to the making of bread, butter, cheese, soap, to the incubation of eggs, &c.
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What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and power into one body, no matter whether of the autocrats of Russia or France, or of the aristocrats of a Venetian senate.
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