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The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1900). The Life and Writings of ...
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Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1854). The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State, p.402
Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses. ✨ Thomas Jefferson ( … ▶
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (2010). The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.
If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts … ▶
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, A … ▶

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1900). The Life and Writings of ...

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