Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of Constitutional power.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson asked himself In what country on earth would you rather live He first answered Certainly in my own where are all my friends my relations and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. But he continued which would be your second choice His answer France.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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