Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
THOMAS JEFFERSONEvery human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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