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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always val

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. – Thomas Jefferson

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There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world. – Thomas Jefferson

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Fear
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Thomas Jefferson
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The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which could not excite them through any other organ. – Thomas Jefferson

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Taxes
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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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Slavery
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Thomas Jefferson
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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you. – Calvin Coolidge

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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor. – Ulysses S. Grant

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

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If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country. – James Buchanan to Abraham Lincoln, 1861

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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. – Victor Hugo

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Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. Its not as if I sit down and play Fire and Rain by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up… the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions. – James Taylor

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If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat? – John Cleese

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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school. – Damian Lewis

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