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Nothing is so engaging as the little domestic cares into which you appear to be entering, and as to reading it is useful for onlyfilling up the chinks of more useful and healthy occupations.
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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And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.
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Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction.
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I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.
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Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise, in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
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The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.
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History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men: it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume and knowing it, to defeat its views.
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There is not a single crowned head in Europe whose talents or merit would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by the people of any parish in America.
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Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.
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The eyes of our citizens are not sufficiently open to the true cause of our distress. They ascribe them to everything but their true cause, the banking system
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May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.
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I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.
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The private buildings [of Virginia] are very rarely constructed of stone or brick much the greatest proportion being of scantlingand boards, plastered with lime. It is impossible to devise things more ugly, uncomfortable, and happily more perishable.
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If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.
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If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This is the favorite passion of my soul, and fortune has cast my lot in a country where it is in a state of deplorable barbarism.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
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Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
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Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.
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The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.
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