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“If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.”
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“I agree with yours of the 22d that a professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution. but we cannot always do what is absolutely best. those with whom we act, entertaining different views, have the power and the right of carrying them into practice. truth advances, & error recedes step by step only; and to do to our fellow-men the most good in our power, we must lead where we can, follow where we cannot, and still go with them, watching always the favorable moment for helping them to another step.
[Comment on establishing Jefferson's University of Virginia, a secular college, in a letter to Thomas Cooper 7 October 1814]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
[Comment on establishing Jefferson's University of Virginia, a secular college, in a letter to Thomas Cooper 7 October 1814]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
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“I cannot live without books.”
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“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
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