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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
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It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. – Thomas Jefferson

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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. – Thomas Jefferson

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Politics
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Thomas Jefferson
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Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival. – Thomas Jefferson

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Beauty
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Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. – Thomas Jefferson

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power
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For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. – Thomas Carlyle

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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us. – George Bernard Shaw

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The good things of prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing. – Chuck Palahniuk

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I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients. – Gustave Courbet

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