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My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair. – 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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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. – Thomas Jefferson

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Hope is the denial of reality. – Margaret Weis

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Ive flown across America, Ive scaled fences, Ive stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. Im a hopeless romantic. Theres no hope for me. – Joel Madden

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Hope is patience with the lamp lit. – Tertullian

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The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love. – Dario Argento

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