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"Health is worth more than learning."
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to his cousin John Garland Jefferson, June 11, 1790, More quotation on Health. |
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"If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it."
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Lewis, Jr., May 9, 1798. |
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"An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens."
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813, More quotation on Power. |
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"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."
- Thomas Jefferson. |
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"Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."
- Thomas Jefferson, More quotation on Laziness. |
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"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it."
- Thomas Jefferson. |
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"I cannot live without books."
- Thomas Jefferson. |
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"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."
- Thomas Jefferson, More quotation on Journalism. |
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"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
- Thomas Jefferson, More quotation on Luck. |
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"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
- Thomas Jefferson. |