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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Category: America Author: Thomas Jefferson
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Category: Brevity Author: Thomas Jefferson
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We rarely repent of having eaten too little.
Category: Dieting Author: Thomas Jefferson
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I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Category: Effort Author: Thomas Jefferson
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The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.
Category: Family Author: Thomas Jefferson
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The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
Category: Family Author: Thomas Jefferson
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Category: Friendship Author: Thomas Jefferson
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Information is the currency of democracy.
Category: Government Author: Thomas Jefferson
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Category: Government Author: Thomas Jefferson
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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Category: Happiness Author: Thomas Jefferson
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A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.
Category: History Author: Thomas Jefferson
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
Category: History Author: Thomas Jefferson
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Category: Honesty Author: Thomas Jefferson
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In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
Category: Integrity Author: Thomas Jefferson
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I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.
Category: Integrity Author: Thomas Jefferson
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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
Category: Labor Author: Thomas Jefferson
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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.
Category: Life Author: Thomas Jefferson
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I\'m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Category: Luck Author: Thomas Jefferson
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Category: Media and Journalism Author: Thomas Jefferson
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Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Category: Media and Journalism Author: Thomas Jefferson
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