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Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.

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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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Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.
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I am sure the man who powders most, perfumes most, embroiders most, and talks most nonsense, is most admired. Though to be candid, there are some who have too much good sense to esteem such monkey-like animals as these, in whose formation, as the saying is, the tailors and barbers go halves with God Almighty.
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letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.
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I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.
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