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Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you.
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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The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.
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The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.
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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead.
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Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.
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It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.
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Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.
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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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Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
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