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My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.
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