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Writing Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- with respect to the distribution of your time the following is what I should approve. from 8. to 10 o'clock practise music. from 10. to…
- I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.
- Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . .…
- The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.
- Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from…
- Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences, the energy of…
- No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him…
- On the subject of the history of the American Revolution, you ask who shall write it? Who can write it? And who will ever be…
- The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines of reason and…
- Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if you do not…
- The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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