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Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against 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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When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.
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If the book be false in its facts, disprove them if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.
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Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.
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Without books, I would certainly die.
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The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.
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