From Thomas Jefferson to the young son of a friend in 1825.
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Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826 |
A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life:
- Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
- Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
- Never spend your money before you have it.
- Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
- Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
- We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
- How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
- Take things always by their smooth handle.
- When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.
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