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Old Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old dull scoundrel in…
- But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.
- Tranquility is the old man's milk.
- Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through…
- It look like the lord just work for wite folks cause ever sens i wasn nothin but a litle boy i been on my on…
- We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do.
- I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old.
- Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors…
- 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,…
- Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.
- It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
- I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
- At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.
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