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Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. - Thomas Jeffe

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. – Thomas Jefferson

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. – Thomas Jefferson

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There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite. – Abraham Lincoln

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We never repent of having eaten too little. – Thomas Jefferson

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Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. – John F. Kennedy

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Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul. – Cass Gilbert

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