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• The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
  -- Thomas Jefferso...
• Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Diety to be the lot of one of His creatures in this world
  but that He has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it, is what I have steadfastly believed....
• How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
  -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book i, Chap. lii...
• If there had ever been a time when I could have given my own life to save her I would have done it.
  ... -- Avo...
• A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun.
  While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind....
• I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
  -- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787...
• I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
  -- Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Benjamin Rush (1800)...