Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Gr…

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Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . . . worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens.
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I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). The Writings of Thomas Jeffe … ▶
The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on earth a government established on so immovable a basis. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). … ▶
The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More money is now paid for the education of a part than would be paid for that … ▶
Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their opposites, peace, economy, and riddance of public debt, be … ▶
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1855). The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, p.6

Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . . . worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens.

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