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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Thomas Jefferson?
→ I cannot live without books.
→ Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.
→ Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
→ It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
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Pick the quote attributed to Thomas Jefferson.
→ No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
→ The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
→ Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
→ There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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Select the quotation attributed to Thomas Jefferson.
→ Never spend your money before you have it.
→ Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
→ False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.
→ Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
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One of these may be attributed to Thomas Jefferson. Which one?
→ Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
→ A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
→ Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
→ Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
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Which one of these belongs to Thomas Jefferson?
→ Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
→ The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis preserve their neutrality.
→ As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
→ Delay is preferable to error.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Thomas Jefferson?
→ The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
→ There are three things that are extremely hard: steel, a diamond and to know oneself.
→ Round numbers are always false.
→ Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Thomas Jefferson.
→ An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
→ Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
→ By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
→ Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Thomas Jefferson. Which one?
→ The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
→ There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
→ Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.
→ True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Thomas Jefferson?
→ We never repent of having eaten too little.
→ Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
→ He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.
→ The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by often falling.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to Thomas Jefferson.
→ I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
→ Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
→ It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
→ The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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