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Books Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind
- music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.
- The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and…
- By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of…
- Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to…
- I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county,…
- A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.
- An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never been a moment…
- I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and…
- I cannot live without books.
- Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption…
- I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon,…
- A room without books is like a life without meaning.
- I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
- Without books, I would certainly die.
- I live for books.
- I can not live with out books.
- I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county,…
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