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Yield Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we…
- When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.
- It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour
- There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the…
- If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and…
- The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
- Everything yields to diligence.
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- Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. — Ambrose Bierce
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