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" No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it. "

Thomas Jefferson

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" Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. "

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" Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia. "

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

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