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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness beg

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. – Thomas Jefferson

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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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What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? – Abraham Lincoln

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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. – Calvin Coolidge

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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. – Thomas Jefferson

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He shaped and molded that office to the contours of his own heroic stature. – W.J. Cameron

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Its time to get real, folks. Hope and change aint working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job. – Herman Cain

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The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success. – Marquis de Sade

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Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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