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I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
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 have done for my country and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.
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But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.
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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
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Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.
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One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
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If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter
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If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which the judges may be suspected of bias, the jury undertake to decide both law and fact.
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Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt.
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The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction, which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption, and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens.
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Health is value greater than studying.
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The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
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