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Thomas Jefferson
 3rd president of US

| “ | Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
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| “ | Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. | ” |
| “ | Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day. | ” |
| “ | Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. | ” |
| “ | Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. | ” |
| “ | I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. | ” |
| “ | I cannot live without books. | ” |
| “ | I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
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| “ | I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. | ” |
| “ | In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. | ” |

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