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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. – Thomas Jefferson

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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. – Thomas Jefferson

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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesnt. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. – Oscar Wilde

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The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones. – William Shakespeare

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The good man is the friend of all living things. – Mahatma Gandhi

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