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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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Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. – Thomas Jefferson

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As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also. – Thomas Jefferson

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

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Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. – William Cullen Bryant

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The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings. – William Hazlitt

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Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are. – John Dryden

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