1. "I cannot live without books."
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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
2. "Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."
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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
3. "I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
4. "Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom."
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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
5. "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
6. "I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
7. "The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."
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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
8. "I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it"
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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
9. "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
10. "On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock."
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Quote by Thomas Jefferson