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No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.
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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Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.
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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead.
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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people.
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Instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy of virtue and talent, which nature has wisely provided for the direction of the interests of society and scattered with equal hand through all its conditions, was deemed essential to a well-ordered republic.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
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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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I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances, to be open and generous, promoting in the long run even the interests of both
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I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness.
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I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.
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Never put off your massage until tomorrow if you can get it today.
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Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true, just, firm, orderly, courageous, etc. Consider every act of this kind as an exercise which will strengthen your moral faculties and increase your worth.
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Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun.
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One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
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Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.
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