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For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. – 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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A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. – Thomas Jefferson

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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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Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account. – Euripides

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it. – Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so. – Aristotle

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At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck. – Alanis Morissette

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There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it without it the brain and the hand would be helpless. – Gertrude Jekyll

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