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" The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead. "

Thomas Jefferson

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" It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. "

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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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" When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred. "

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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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" Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. "

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" Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do. "

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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. "

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" It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong. "

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" If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. "

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" The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. "

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" We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. "

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" Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. "

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" There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world. "

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