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Earnestly recommended to all officers and soldiers, diligently to attend divine services.
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 am already sensible of decay in the power of walking, and find my memory not so faithful as it used to be. This may be partly owing to the incessant current of new matter flowing constantly through it but I ascribe to years their share in it also.
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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
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A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.
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