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No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions.
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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One had rather have no opinion than a false one.
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Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be.
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If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office, though nominally elective, will, in fact, be for life, and that will soon degenerate into an inheritance.
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[My] pillar of support through life.... I can say conscientiously that I do not know in the world a man of purer integrity, more dispassionate, disinterested, and devoted to genuine Republicanism nor could I in the whole scope of America and Europe point out an abler head.
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An industrious farmer occupies a more dignified place in the scale of beings...than a lazy lounger...too proud to work, and drawing out a miserable existence by eating on that surplus of other men's labor.
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The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
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Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.
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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 have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
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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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The only security of all is in a free press.
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Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.
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All the world would be Christian if they were taught the pure Gospel of Christ!.
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Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.
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