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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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Darkness Himself Ideas Instruction Lesson Light
No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Freedom Ignorant One Liner Peace People
No people can be both ignorant and free.
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Freedom Ignorant One Liner Peace People
The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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Fund Future Money Principle
I cannot live without books.
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Addiction Book One Liner Reading
Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Declare Experience Government Man Poor Rich
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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Control Liberty People Power Safe Society
Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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Alcohol Funny Necessity Requirement Wine
If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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Affair Expectation Government Individual Law Politics
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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Disease Doctor Future Human Medicine Prevention
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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Democracy Freedom Government Liberty Man Politics
I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
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Confidence Constitution Democracy Law Man Power
How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Cost Evil Happen Healing Pain Suffering
When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Dispute Forgiveness Inspirational Let Go One Liner Please
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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Deep Education Insult Man Newspaper Reading
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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Country Government Majority Participate Politics
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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Arrangement Friendship Precious Proof Sun Sunshine
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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Country Culture Nature Plant Service
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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Earth Generation Independence Judgement Nation Politics
The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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Bank Belong People Power Restore
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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Economy Liberty Politics Sea Wave
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
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Business Hustle Inspirational One Liner Present Success
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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Book Family Friendship Human Life World
There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Education Equality People Philosophy Treatment

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