The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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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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I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of 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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I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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We never repent of having eat too little.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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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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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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Good wine is a necessity of life for me.
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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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A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.
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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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We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
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