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To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or occupations will fail in attempting.
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 nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way.
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the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.
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Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skinsand furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.
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From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.
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Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.
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I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.
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