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The happiest hours of my life have been spent in the flow of affection among friends.
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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I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all founded on fables and mythology. Christianity has made one-half of the world fools and the other half Hypocrites
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Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.
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I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern.
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Our bills shall not be killed.
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Dependence leads to subservience.
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For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.
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The fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth.
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The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
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There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances, to be open and generous, promoting in the long run even the interests of both
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