Quote by Thomas Jefferson
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. – Thomas Jefferson

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Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state. – Thomas Jefferson

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Farming
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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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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. – Thomas Jefferson

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Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith. – Benjamin Harrison

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His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. – Theodore Roosevelt

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The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution. – John F. Kennedy

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