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That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.
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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[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live.
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If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.
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