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Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.
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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It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.
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There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.
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