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My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind
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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It is always better to have no ideas than false ones to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
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