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The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.
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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The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its members would become despots.
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When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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The government you elect is the government you deserve.
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To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.
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