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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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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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Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
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Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
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I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country
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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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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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