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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.

Thomas Jefferson

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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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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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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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How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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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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The dead should not rule the living.
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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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Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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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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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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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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