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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. – Thomas Jefferson

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A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written. – Thomas Jefferson

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It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously. – H. L. Mencken

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I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself. – Yoko Ono

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I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Mens rights are nothing more. Womens rights are nothing less. – Susan B. Anthony

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Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race. – Hunter S. Thompson

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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. – Mary Wortley Montagu

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It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasnt Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if youd opened your eyes wide enough. – Julia Ormond

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Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life. – Abraham Maslow

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