Quote #24

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough. ... The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

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  1. My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination con…
  2. We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, rev…
  3. There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting…
  4. I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever …
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  6. I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land run away or break.
  7. You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
  8. Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.

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