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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pi

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset. – Thomas Jefferson

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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. – Thomas Jefferson

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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain. – Henry Ward Beecher

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That which is escaped now is pain to come. – Proverb

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