Quote by Thomas Jefferson
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his o

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. – 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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cool
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My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. – Thomas Jefferson

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Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. – Thomas Jefferson

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No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book. – Ellen Glasgow

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I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life. – E. M. Forster

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The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know. – John Frusciante

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Experience is the teacher of all things. – Julius Caesar

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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue – Natalie Clifford Barney

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I am so blessed. Ive been way over-blessed. At 64 years old, I look forward to going to bed every night so I can wake up in the morning and see what blessing is going to come my way that day. Because you never, ever know what Gods got in store for you. – Paula Deen

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A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. – Peter De Vries

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