A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Take things always by their smooth handle.
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Every 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.
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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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When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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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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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
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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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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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I cannot live without books.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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