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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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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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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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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 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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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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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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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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