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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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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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What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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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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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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