“Be a listener, only keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silences, especially in politics.”
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Advice to his grandson.
More from Thomas Jefferson
“I cannot live without books.”
“I cannot live without books.”
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing…”
“That of the proprietors of slaves a very small proportion indeed are ever seen to labour.…”