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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 nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way.
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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.
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It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united.
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Female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them a solid education which might enable them, when become mothers, to educate their own daughters, and even to direct the course for sons, should their fathers be.
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He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me.
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Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.
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