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Thomas Jefferson
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
--Thomas Jefferson
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
--Thomas Jefferson
Never spend your money before you have it.
--Thomas Jefferson
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
--Thomas Jefferson
I cannot live without books.
--Thomas Jefferson
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
--Thomas Jefferson
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances
--Thomas Jefferson
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
--Thomas Jefferson
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
--Thomas Jefferson
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
--Thomas Jefferson
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
--Thomas Jefferson
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
--Thomas Jefferson
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.
--Thomas Jefferson