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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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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
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It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and ideas by forcible asportation and education of the infant against the will of the father.
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Every experience deeply felt in life needs to be passed along. Wheather it be through words and music, chiseled in stone, painted with a brush, or sewn with a needle, it is a way of reaching for immortality.
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The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.
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Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day, assured that the public approbation will in the end be with us.
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We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is a practicable government.
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Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
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One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier.
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Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
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Above all things, and at all times, practice yourself in good humor.
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Never put off your massage until tomorrow if you can get it today.
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There is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute.
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Slavery is an abomination and must be loudly proclaimed as such, but I own that I nor any other man has any immediate solution to the problem.
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The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.
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Ministers and merchants love nobody.
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Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.
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I extremely believe in luck, and I discovered more hard work, your luck as much
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I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages for though there is less wealth there, there is more freedom, more ease, and less misery.
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