Favorite Thomas Jefferson Quotes

1. Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money before you have it.
4. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
6. We never repent of having eaten too little.
7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
8. How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
9. Take things always by their smooth handle.
10. When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.
11. Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
12. Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
13. The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
14. The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
15. I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it

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