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I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.
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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There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
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A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world.
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While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?
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I never before knew the full value of trees....What would I not give that the trees planted nearest round the house at Monticello were full grown.
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Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.
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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
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Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
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I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our fathers, as Israel of old, from their native land and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessaries of comforts of life.
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Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And why subject it to coercion? To produce uniformity. But is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than of face and stature.
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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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Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.
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