I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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If you want something you’ve never had, You must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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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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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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I cannot live without books.
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