Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
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I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided in sufficient proportion, should be selected by the society for the govenment of their affairs, rather than that this should be be transmitted through the loins of knaves and fools passing from the debauches of the table to those of the bed.Thomas Jefferson
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
Thomas Jefferson
The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
Thomas Jefferson
The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
Thomas Jefferson
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Thomas Jefferson
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Thomas Jefferson
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